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The Thucydides Trap
In the last 300 years, there have been 16 occasions when a new champion global power has risen to pull alongside a rubber take the world's leading power. Bad news is that of the 16 instances thus identified, 12 have ended in war and only four were peacefully resolved. In other words, dear friends, we are at the most dangerous moment in world politics today when the leading great power, the United States, sees itself sinking towards second place.