How a catastrophic war between China and USA could erupt ‘within THREE MONTHS’

Sunday, October 2, 2016
By Paul Martin

CHINA’S warning last week that Japan was “playing with fire” by stepping up naval patrols in the East China Sea represents its most ominous threat yet, with some predicting a conflict within three months.

By MARCO GIANNANGELI
Express.co.uk
Sun, Oct 2, 2016

To understand what is happening we need to go back to 431BC and the Athenian general Thucydides.

He argued that Athens’ rise in power and the fear that held for the region’s superpower, Sparta, made the Peloponnesian Wars that followed inevitable.

The lesson of the “Thucydides Trap” has echoed through time. Look at Napoleonic France and Hitler’s Germany.

Today it is the US, the world’s only superpower, which plays the role of Sparta and it is the US Navy that will bear the brunt of any naval engagement with sabre-rattling China.

Beijing’s claims that it is reacting to the 2011 decision by the US to focus more on the region is not borne out by the facts.

Actually, tensions have been running high in the Western Pacific since 2008. Possibly, Beijing assumed America’s economic woes would lead to long-term decline and pounced.

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