Trump responds to Xi's 'Thucydides Trap' comment about America's decline [View all]

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump on Thursday responded to Chinese President Xi Jinping's comment about the "Thucydides Trap" during their state visit, in which Xi appeared to reference the political theory that a dominant power's fear of a rising power could lead to war.

Trump claimed his counterpart was not saying that the U.S. is currently a "declining nation," but that it was during former President Joe Biden's term.

Xi, during his opening remarks on Wednesday, according to a live translation, said, "The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the U.S. overcome the 'Thucydides Trap' and create a new paradigm of major country relations?"

In his post to Truth Social on Thursday, Trump said, "When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct."

There was no apparent indication that Xi was referring to Biden in his statement.

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