{"id":151653,"date":"2026-05-20T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151653"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:30:06","slug":"chinas-rise-will-turn-thucydides-trap-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151653","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s rise will turn Thucydides Trap on its head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe end of the Cold War was supposed to deliver a long peace. For a while, that was working, until it wasn\u2019t. We might now be entering another period when the breakdown of a world order leads to war.<br \/>\nIt was no accident that President Xi Jinping cited the \u201cThucydides Trap\u201d during his summit in Beijing with his US counterpart Donald Trump, putting it forward as something for both superpowers to avoid. The theory, popularised by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, digs deep into an episode&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3353953\/chinas-rise-will-turn-thucydides-trap-its-head?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe end of the Cold War was supposed to deliver a long peace. For a while, that was working, until it wasn\u2019t. We might&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}