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I am assigned to the National Security Council as part of the Biden Administration's assessment of global dynamics. Please help me as I write an argumentative paper addressing why China's military modernization plan raises the risk for a potential Thucydides trap with the United States and why the US-Chinese tightly interwoven economic dependency serves as a counterweight. Evaluate the challenging for US national security in the next decade.

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The solution provides information, assistance and advise in tackling the task (see above) on the topic of a possible Thucydides Trap in the current US-China relations in argumentative form. Resources are listed for further exploration of the topic. A word version is also attached.

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Hi and thank you for using Brainmass. The solution below should get you started. In this task, you are being asked to present an argumentative essay from a scenario. I suggest using this simple outline:
1. About the topic & your claim - 150 words
2. Reason for your claim (theoretical position) - 150 words
3. Evidence - 200 words
4. Counter-claim vs. your evidence - 100 words
5. Rebuttal to #4 & conclusion - 200 words
6. Resources
This outline follows the parts of an argumentative essay and should cover what you need. Because it is limited with word count, you have to be selective of what to include. You can use the listed resources to further explore the topic. All the best with your studies.

Sincerely,
AE 105878/Xenia Jones
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China's Modernization & the Risk of the Thucydides Trap

Introduction

It is claimed that the current interwoven dependency between the US and China in terms of economic and political exchange is a Thucydides trap. A Thucydides trap is that tendency or likelihood of conflict or war when an emerging power (in this case, China), threatens the position of an existing great power or hegemon (in this case, the US) (Allison, 2015). Allison (Allison, 2015) compares this to the eventual conflict between Athens and Sparta when the rising Athenian power threatened the hegemony of the established military state of Sparta, leading to the Peloponnesian War. The current administration's approach towards China is fraught with both hard line approaches and soft power strategies, distributed between diplomatic actions, political and military approaches and counters as well as economic relations. The conflict was made more intense however by the developing American attitudes towards China, ...

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