17 days ago · China
What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. South China Morning Post Asia is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to China. The first report grouped here was at 29 Sept 2026, 12:30 UTC. The headline in use is “What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
For a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a fancy, fashionable name borrowed from ancient Greece: the “Thucydides Trap” – the idea that a rising power and an established one are fated to collide, the…
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- First reported by South China Morning Post Asia
What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable
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