{"id":35785,"date":"2018-07-07T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35785"},"modified":"2018-07-07T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T20:10:00","slug":"leaked-chinese-memo-warns-of-thucydides-trap-with-us-war-is-unavoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35785","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable”<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A series of leaked internal documents reveal that China’s military reforms are aimed at allowing Beijing to “manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war” and overtake the United States in military strength, according to the\u00a0Express<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The leaked documents were published by the Central Military Commission in February for the purpose of spreading President Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cthought on strengthening the armed forces\u201d.<\/p>\n

If the reforms go ahead, they will lead to heightened tensions with China\u2019s neighbouring countries, including Japan, in the East and South China Seas and the US. –Express<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAs we open up and expand our national interests beyond borders, we desperately need a comprehensive protection of our own security around the globe<\/strong>,\u201d read the leaked documents, which adds that a strong military is the best way to “escape the obsession that war is unavoidable between an emerging power and a ruling hegemony”.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that in March<\/a>\u00a0Beijing rolled out their largest defense budget in three years.<\/p>\n

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According to the leaked documents, China’s rapid military expansion will allow them to \u201cmore effectively create a situation, manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war, defend the expansion of our country\u2019s strategic interests in an all-round fashion and realize the goals set by the party and Chairman Xi\u201d.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0J<\/a>apan Times<\/i><\/a> reports that the authors of the documents argue that “strong military might is important for a country to grow from being big to being strong,” and that the US, Russia and Japan are examples of this, and would avoid the “Thucydides Trap<\/a>“<\/strong> – a deadly competition between superpowers\u00a0first identified by anicient Greek historian Thucydides who explained: “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.”<\/p>\n

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Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable” A series of leaked internal documents reveal that China’s military reforms are aimed at allowing Beijing to “manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war” and overtake the United States in military strength, according to the\u00a0Express. The leaked documents were published by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2045,130,20797,20796,4612,827,862,4318],"class_list":["post-35785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-express","tag-leaked-chinese-memo","tag-thucydides-trap","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35786,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785\/revisions\/35786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}