Xi Jinping opened his Beijing summit with Trump by asking whether the two powers could avoid the "Thucydides Trap" — then warned that mishandling Taiwan could lead to war. When the leaders of the ...

China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one. By Leo Sands As the leaders of the United States and China met in ...

On Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Trump ahead of their high-stakes meeting in Beijing that the major question that China and the U.S. will have to answer is whether they can ...

China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world’s two superpowers ...

“The world has come to another crossroads,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the two leaders began their summit in Beijing. Then Xi asked: “Can China and ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor Joe Biden for making the United States "a nation in decline" after Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked the name of an ancient Greek general ...

When Xi Jinping greeted Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he opened with a question that sounded almost philosophical: can China and the United States “transcend the so-called ...

Donald Trump lands in Beijing for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with agenda items that include trade and tariffs, the future of Taiwan, and the U.S. computer chips that are powering ...

When President Xi Jinping met US leader Donald Trump in Beijing on Thursday, he posed a big question: Can China and the US avoid the “Thucydides Trap”? It’s a phrase that sounds academic, but it goes ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a Truth Social post following a high-profile meeting with Chinese ...

A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world’s two superpowers met in Beijing this week, these were the flashpoints everyone expected they would talk about.

During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”. This phrase, ...