Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday told a delegation of influential American senators that the “Thucydides Trap” is “not inevitable” as he played down the concerns in Washington that China is out to challenge the superpower status of the US.
Thucydides Trap is a term to describe an emerging power threatening to displace the existing great power.
“Competition and confrontation are not consistent with the trend of the times. Still less can it fix one’s own problems and address the challenges facing the world,” Xi told a US Senate delegation headed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer during a meeting.
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