14-04-2025
Can a trade war lead to a shooting war? Trump and Xi, take note: Yes.
In 2014, eminent political scientist Graham Allison published an influential book called 'Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?' The subtitle referred to a famous passage in Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War': 'It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this inspired in Sparta, that made war inevitable.'
