\"When a rapidly rising power threatens to displace a major ruling power, both become increasingly hostile towards the other... this is a classic Thucydidean rivalry... So, as I wrote in 2016: expect things to get worse before they get worse.
As we saw when Athens challenged Sparta in Ancient Greece and have seen repeatedly in the centuries since, when a rapidly rising power threatens to displace a major ruling power, both become increasingly hostile towards the other. The last 500 years have seen 16 cases in which a rising power threatened to displace a ruling power. In 12 of those cases, the outcome was war. Nobody can deny that China is a meteoric rising power. Who was the world’s manufacturing workshop when China entered the WTO in 2001? The US. Who is it today? China. Who was everyone’s main trading partner in 2000? The US. Who is it today? China. Who has the largest GDP? In 2000, China’s GDP was roughly a quarter of the US’ in purchasing power parity terms, and today it is slightly larger than the US’. And nobody can deny that the US is a colossal ruling power that has been the architect and protector of the international order that has given us over seven decades without great power war. So, this is a classic Thucydidean rivalry.\"
- Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard and Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School
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