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Thucydides Trap: are America and China destined for war?

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Introduction

China poses the biggest challenge of our age to global security and prosperity. They are increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad. The West doesn't want to completely antagonise and cut off China, with the Australian Prime Minister saying lessons had to be learnt from history. Are we entering a new Cold War where conflict is avoided, but tensions remain? Or are we not far off from a catastrophic war? On today's episode, I speak to Graham Allison, a former member of Bill Clinton's Defense Department and one of the preeminent national security voices in America.

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