Much of today’s debate about US–China rivalry assumes that Washington and Beijing are on a collision course. Commentators warn of a looming ‘Thucydides Trap’, where a rising power challenges an ...

The U.S. should rethink Chinese perceptions of geopolitical conflict because China brings a fundamentally different perspective to politics than the West, Xinru Ma, a research scholar at the Freeman ...

At first, many in Washington assumed that China’s rise could be managed. In response to the inexorable logic of modernization and some coaxing, China would become, as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State ...

China is rising, and tensions with the United States have increased in recent years. Yet the core theory informing much of US policy toward China today—the idea of a Thucydides Trap popularized in ...

How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they do? Contesting ...