President Donald Trump tried to spin Xi Jinping’s apparent suggestion that the U.S. was a declining power by claiming he knew what the Chinese president was really talking about: the Biden administration.
Trump, 79, posted on Truth Social at 5:42 a.m. Beijing time, apparently referencing Jinping’s comments the day before in which he warned that the U.S. and China should not fall into a “Thucydides Trap.”
That term, coined by international relations theorist Graham Allison in the early 2010s, references the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. Athenian general and historian Thucydides wrote in his History of the Peloponnesian War, “The rise of Athens frightened Sparta and forced them into war.”
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