Culture | The Thucydides Trap

Will America and China go to war?

The big foreign-policy question that is worrying Washington

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 384 pages; $28. Scribe; £18.99.

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