{"id":29258,"date":"2021-12-09T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29258"},"modified":"2021-12-09T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:30:15","slug":"us-and-china-at-war-why-thucydides-trap-or-cold-war-analogies-are-deeply-unhelpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29258","title":{"rendered":"US and China at war? Why Thucydides Trap or Cold War analogies are deeply unhelpful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRecently, the Financial Times ran an article with the headline \u201cThe US and China are already at war. But which kind?\u201d The author, Gillian Tett, bases many of her assertions on one of the most popular historical analogies employed by Sino-American doomsayers: Graham Allison\u2019s Thucydides Trap.The Thucydides Trap is a historical analogy used to warn against the potential for imminent conflict between the United States and China. It draws insights from the Peloponnesian war where, it is alleged,\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3158816\/us-and-china-war-why-thucydides-trap-or-cold-war-analogies-are?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRecently, the Financial Times ran an article with the headline \u201cThe US and China are already at war. But which kind?\u201d The author, Gillian&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29259,"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\/29258"}],"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=29258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}