Taiwan, Thucydides, and U.S.-China War.
If the best the current U.S. and Chinese governments can manage is statecraft as usual—which is what we’ve seen this past week—then we should expect history as usual.
We would like to share the insights and analysis by Dr. Graham T. Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, who is the former director of Harvard’s Belfer Center and the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
His commentary originally appeared in The National Interest, August 5, 2022.
