{"id":158133,"date":"2026-09-29T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158133"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:30:06","slug":"what-trap-us-china-relations-show-conflict-is-far-from-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158133","title":{"rendered":"What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a fancy, fashionable name borrowed from ancient Greece: the \u201cThucydides Trap\u201d \u2013 the idea that a rising power and an established one are fated to collide, the way two articulated lorries merging into a single lane rarely ends well.<br \/>\nThe term is widely used in commentaries on US-China relations. Frictions get written off as \u201cinevitable\u201d regardless of what actually&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3369045\/what-trap-us-china-relations-show-conflict-far-inevitable?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 PostFor a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a&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\/158133"}],"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=158133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}