U.S. and China discuss the Thucydides Trap framework in bilateral relations

At a summit between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Xi raised the question of whether China and the U.S. could avoid the Thucydides Trap, a concept coined by Harvard professor Graham Allison describing conflict between a rising and ruling power. The Atlantic examines the historical precedent of great power competition; the Daily Wire contests the framing, arguing China is not the rising power and the U.S. is not in decline, proposing instead a 'closing window' theory of conflict.