John Quiggin on Nostr: Trump has avoided the Thucydides Trap by engineering a US decline so rapid and ...
Trump has avoided the Thucydides Trap by engineering a US decline so rapid and obvious that China doesn’t need a war to establish its status as the #1 superpower.
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