Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

“in his 2017 book destined for war former us assistant secretary of defense graham allison wrote when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power alarm bells should sound ”

“it would be ideal if the united states and china could avoid the thucydides trap which as you'll recall we talked about with graham allison ”

“well there is an incredible book called thucydides trap uh which a professor named allison um said that throughout history he took i think twenty occasions ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s

“i just was reviewing my notes ahead of our conversation today from graham allison's book on china destined for war with china ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“his book destined for war remains the definitive framework for understanding the uschina relationship ”

“this is a point graham allison made in his book destined for war there's some probability that they end up in a hot war because what's a cold war ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“wrote a book called the thucydides trap raising the question of whether china and the us would inevitably go to war ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s