Singapore sailors claim 2 silver medals at Asian Games

I don’t believe the Sino–U.S. relationship is in Thucydides’s Trap—at least not yet. The United States has legitimate security interests and reasons to maintain a strong global presence. But if Washington comes to believe that American dominance must be preserved everywhere, at any cost, while treating China’s rise as something that must be contained rather than managed, the risk of confrontation will only grow. Great powers do not inevitably fall into conflict; they can also choose restraint, coexistence, and competition without turning it into a zero-sum struggle.