{"id":73537,"date":"2026-05-14T21:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/what-is-the-thucydides-trap-and-why-did-xi-jinping-mention-it-in-his-meeting-with-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:59:51","slug":"what-is-the-thucydides-trap-and-why-did-xi-jinping-mention-it-in-his-meeting-with-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/what-is-the-thucydides-trap-and-why-did-xi-jinping-mention-it-in-his-meeting-with-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Thucydides Trap and why did Xi Jinping mention it in his meeting with Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/15\/trump-china-visit-live-updates-xi-jinping-talks-meeting-summit-latest-news\">Trump-Xi China summit \u2013 follow live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world\u2019s two superpowers met in Beijing this week, these were the flashpoints everyone expected they would talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Chinese leader Xi Jinping threw another, ancient war, into the mix.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/thucydides-trap-explained-xi-jinping-donald-trump-us-china-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing Trump-Xi China summit \u2013 follow live A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world\u2019s two superpowers met in Beijing this week, these were the flashpoints everyone expected they would talk about. &#8230; <a title=\"What is the Thucydides Trap and why did Xi Jinping mention it in his meeting with Donald Trump?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/what-is-the-thucydides-trap-and-why-did-xi-jinping-mention-it-in-his-meeting-with-donald-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is the Thucydides Trap and why did Xi Jinping mention it in his meeting with Donald Trump?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}