The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked ...

Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in 1888. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

In today’s context, the implication seems clear – China’s rise is bound to provoke ... Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the ...

But the endeavour gained added traction after the First Opium War during ... who studies ancient Chinese philosophy and its contemporary application in Chinese politics. "[China] is a Legalist ...

The term is named after the ancient Greek historian who chronicled the war between Athens and Sparta. Beijing has viewed the Thucydides trap as a key framework for examining China-US relations.

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the ...