Thucydides trap

Thucydides Trap is the title of the Guitar Emporium CD release on 1st September. 

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The tune was written in response to China's reference to the USA during Donald Trumps visit in May of this year to China. 

Donald Trump visited China the Chinese leader- Xi Jinping ( the paramount leader of China, serving as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.) Xi Jinping referred to the Thucydides Trap.

 I am sure Trump understood what the Chinese leader was referring to. 

The WIKI bit ...

Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general of the 5th century BCE

The Thucydides Trap refers to the idea that when a rising power threatens to displace an established one, the result is often war.[1] The concept originated with Herman Wouk, the novelist and World War II veteran, who used it in his Admiral Raymond A. Spruance lecture, delivered on April 16, 1980, at the U.S. Naval War College. Wouk compared the U.S.–Soviet Cold War to the "cold war" that developed between Athens and Sparta once they had defeated Persia, their common enemy, remarking:

And more than two millennia later we seem still trapped in Thucydides' world. None of the ways in which those quarrelsome Greeks behaved is suited to these dreaded times of nuclear menace; yet we still behave in those ways, and can find no other. How do we break out of this Thucydidean trap, which now threatens to strangle, if not to destroy, our world?

It's now not such an obvious "Cold War" as the US /Soviet situation but the US/China situation is certainly a developing Thucydides Trap.