#thucydides trap

[didanawisgi]

U.S. general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to get ready

“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me will fight in 2025," said Gen. Mike Minihan in a memo sent to the officers he commands and obtained by NBC News.

[xgeronimowrks]

[scriptorsecular]

It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this instilled in Sparta, that made war inevitable.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 1.23.6 (9569 - 9590 HE)

[indizombie]

Xi Jinping takes the Thucydides Trap seriously: when a rising power causes fear in an established power which escalates toward war. Xi has referred to it many times in his speeches. Closing the historical circle that started with Alexander, we now have an informed reader from the Middle Kingdom showing respect toward the most eminent historian of Ancient Greece. Xi is warning the US, and by proxy, India, not to fall into the mistake that generated the Peloponnesian War, where every player lost. The fear instilled in Sparta by the ascent of Athens rendered the war inevitable (replace Sparta by Washington/Delhi and Athens by Beijing). Athens was defeated as well as its model of democracy. In fact, the whole of Greece was defeated, its decline acting as a prelude for being conquered by Philip of Macedonia.

Pepe Escobar, 'China will not fall into the 'Thucydides Trap' with India', Asia Times

[npr]

From Ancient Greece, Lessons On The Risk Of A Modern, Accidental War

What's the most serious threat to the U.S. — a resurgent Russia, Islamic State terrorism, a nuclear Iran? Maybe it's none of the above. It could be something called the Thucydides trap.

[didanawisgi]

China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security. “The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure--and they're winning. It's almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese. In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China's most brilliant ploys, including:  •  Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students.  •  Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China.  •  Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how. Spalding's concern isn't merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights. Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it's still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat--and win--China's stealth war.”

[tenizo009]

Xi Jinping's Vision: Partners, Not Rivals in U.S.-China Relations

Chinese President Xi Jinping saying that the United States and China should treat each other “not as rivals but partners” is both a diplomatic message and a strategic warning. It reflects how Beijing views the current state of U.S.-China relations: dangerously competitive, economically intertwined, and globally consequential. At the center of Xi’s message is a rejection of the “zero-sum”…

Xi Jinping's Vision: Partners, Not Rivals in U.S.-China Relations

[sweepingtrex]

So how long did his people spend explaining to Donnie what Xi meant when he mentioned the Thucydides Trap?