OPINION_ Xi Warned US Not to Fall Into ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What’s That Mean? (Victor Davis Hanson - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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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
5/20/2026|Updated: 5/20/2026


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, Premier Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides Trap.

What did that mean? It refers to a book and an article by the well-known political scientist Graham Allison.

In it, he presented a paradigm of international relations. Briefly, it was this: If you have an established power, like ancient Sparta, and it gets worried that there is an ascending power, a rising new neighborhood bully or something, the older power, the established power, will attack it, and there will be a war.

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