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Chinese President Raises War Theory During Trump Summit in Provocative Opening

Megyn Kelly Show · Colbert's Hissy Fit Farewell Tour, Xi's Ominous Comment, and Murdaugh's New Trial, with Glenn Greenwald | Ep. 1318 · May 15, 2026
Chinese President Raises War Theory During Trump Summit in Provocative Opening
Megyn Kelly Show
Megyn Kelly Show
Colbert's Hissy Fit Farewell Tour, Xi's Ominous Comment, and Murdaugh's New Trial, with Glenn Greenwald | Ep. 1318
"Xi gave a speech, it was his opening remarks at the bilateral meeting, and in it, in those remarks, he questioned if the two nations could overcome the Thucydides trap. And that's a theory suggesting that when a rising power threatens to displace an established one a war could result."
Chinese President Xi Jinping opened bilateral talks with Trump by invoking the Thucydides trap theory, which predicts war when a rising power threatens an established one. The reference positioned China as the rising power and America as declining, a provocative framing that Trump later attempted to deflect by attributing it to Biden-era decline. The moment underscored tensions despite Trump's repeated compliments to Xi, which were not reciprocated.
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