Speaking just ahead of Trump, Xi noted the global attention on the meeting, and said a major question for the two countries was whether they could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” according to an official English translation of his remarks broadcast by CCTV.Trump was probably rolling his eyes and thinking "Only dummies stick their fingers in those little tubes in the first place."
(In case you, like the president, haven't read Allison: Link. Personally, I think the premise of the book is overly simplistic, but I'm just some rando on the interwebs.)
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