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  "id": 10694868,
  "title": "What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/what-trap-us-china-relations-show-conflict-is-far-from-inevitable-10694868",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-29T12:30:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3369045/what-trap-us-china-relations-show-conflict-far-inevitable"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a fancy, fashionable name borrowed from ancient Greece: the “Thucydides Trap” – the idea that a rising power and an established one are fated to collide, the way two articulated lorries merging into a single lane rarely ends well. The term is widely used in…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/what-trap-us-china-relations-show-conflict-is-far-from-inevitable",
        "published": "2026-09-29T12:30:06.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}