Xi Insulted Trump With Just Two Words. Trump Was Forced To Respond

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Chinese President Xi Jinping used these two words in a speech delivered Thursday at the high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump and a delegation of cabinet members, as well as top American CEOs.

In his opening remarks, Xi referenced the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, a long war between Athens and Sparta that began in 431 B.C.

“Can China and the United States overcome the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’ and create a new paradigm of major-power relations?” he said.

Named after the Greek historian Thucydides, the Thucydides Trap is a theory that when a declining state power is faced with a rising one, war becomes almost “inevitable.” (RELATED: Chinese Supertanker Glides Through Hormuz Blockade As White House Touts ‘Good’ Talks In Beijing)

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