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China's Peaceful Rise and the Thucydides Trap

China first proposed a "peaceful rise" as early as by the end of 2003. As China emerged as a major economic and political power, however, there has been increasing concern regarding the role it plays in international trade and affairs over the last decade. In particular, a pivotal question about the world order in the present day is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides Trap.

This Bridging Minds Symposium held by the LSESU China Development Society in collaboration with LSE IDEAS, a foreign policy think tank, aims to approach the question from a variety of diverse perspectives and discuss whether the prospects of a "peaceful rise" are indeed fading.

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Event recorded 29 January 2019