[littlewing]

'As Xi Jinping himself said during a visit to Seattle on Tuesday, “There is no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap in the world. But should major countries time and again make the mistakes of strategic miscalculation, they might create such traps for themselves.”'

That's scary. What do you think he means by that, specifically? It seems like a threat to me.

[nikatwork]

It's beautifully layered. In one sense he's saying that war is not inevitable if we make the effort to get along. In another sense he's saying don't prod the panda.

[redwood]

I think he's saying that we should be wary of seeing everything China does as a threat since that kind of one dimensional thinking puts us on a trajectory toward the trap. Instead we should aim to rise both our boats.