{
  "id": 9770857,
  "title": "How US and China can nimbly escape the Thucydides Trap",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/how-us-and-china-can-nimbly-escape-the-thucydides-trap",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-25T13:19:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/how-us-and-china-can-nimbly-escape-the-thucydides-trap/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The most consequential sentence of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington may also be the simplest: “The Thucydides Trap can be overcome.” This line, delivered during Xi’s speech at the White House arrival ceremony, provides a better key to understanding the summit than the rich references to the history of US-China exchanges and the […] The post How US and China can nimbly escape the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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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."
}