Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached for one of his favorite academic concepts when he met President Trump: the ‘Thucydides Trap.’ “Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major country relations?” Xi asked Trump at the Great Hall of the People.Coine
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