Sun Tzu, Mao, and Thucydides: China’s Strategy Against the United States

The shape of the next conflict

Oğul Tuna explains how Beijing increasingly determines the tempo and terrain of the emerging global confrontation, even as Washington still possesses immense power.

The recent meeting in Beijing between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had been eagerly anticipated as a “historic” moment. Xi’s cold treatment of Trump in October…