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Xi Warned US Not to Fall Into ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What’s That Mean?

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Xi Warned US Not to Fall Into ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What’s That Mean?
A statue of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides outside the Austrian parliament in Vienna. sianstock/Shutterstock
Victor Davis Hanson
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This is a lightly edited transcript of a May 18 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.

Recently, at the U.S.–China summit in Beijing, President Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides Trap.

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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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