CCG New Book Launch: Escaping Thucydides’s Trap

The China-US relationship is arguably the most important bilateral relationship of this century. Whether these two great powers can get along will affect not only their own people, economy and society, but will also have a major impact on the security, peace and prosperity of the entire world. Discussions on China-US relations often cite the Thucydides’sTrap, which describes the risk of war when a rising power challenges the dominance of a ruling power, and the ruling power fears to be displaced. But can this concept, which is drawn from traditional models of competition in the West, be applied to the relationship between China and the United States, which have completely different historical and cultural traditions? Prof. Graham Allison’s book Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? published in 2017 in English (Chinese edition published in 2019), warns us of the Thucydidean dynamic between China and the US and the danger it poses. His views have generated global discussion