"Thucydides Trap" means: in reality, the fatal combination of strategic judgment and feelings of two great powers will lead to healthy competition becoming life-and-death hostility or even worse with the passage of time.

"Thucydides Trap", pronounced [xi ū x:? Dǐ dé xiàn jǐng]

"Thucydides Trap" comes from Thucydides, a famous ancient Greek historian, who said that the war between Athens and Sparta finally became inevitable because of the growth of Athens' strength and the fear caused by this growth in Sparta. That is, in reality, the fatal combination of strategic judgment and emotional likes and dislikes of the two great powers will lead to healthy competition becoming deadly hostility or even worse with the passage of time.