Washington and Beijing must resist the temptation to frame the relationship in purely zero-sum terms
By Euripides L Evriviades
Thucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in the “ Peloponnesian War” that “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” This diagnosis of the structural causes of conflict has echoed through the corridors of history and diplomacy
