By Michael Roberts On the first day of talks during US President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to China, his host China’s Xi Jinping invoked the so-called “Thucydides trap” to warn against any war between the two superpowers that now dominate the world economic and political landscape. Xi was referring to the fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides who (it is ...
The United States of America have suffered unseen diplomatic defeats in the Summit of the Americas they hosted from June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles. A number of presidents refused to follow the US invitation. Others came and protested loudly. And during the summit, a number of states refused to support US proposed declarations. The State Department had declared ...