The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United States and China.

China has set up a research institute on early Chinese philosophies, taking the discourse beyond Confucius in its latest effort to win the narrative war with ... and use that ancient wisdom ...

Jin claims there is no written record from before the 13th century that can prove Aristotle’s existence, and the ancient ... as China rises on the world stage and engages in a “war of ...

From its hazy origins in ancient China to its even hazier reinvention ... encapsulated within the framework of this awe-inspiring war machine. The history of the trebuchet is a testament to ...

In the ancient Greek world ... there might just be enough to tip these two great powers into war. Not least because China is pursuing the world's largest comprehensive naval build-up.

It's not inextricable. And if, God forbid, we find ourselves in a war with China in the next year, or several years, leaders will not be able to blame some iron law of history. But if we look at ...

But while Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and ancient China gloried in warfare, it seems absent from the Indus valley. Was this a real, functioning utopia? If so, how did it survive, and why did it ...

Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by ... the Great Wall of China discovered in Chinese ...