其次，中国可能陷入所谓的修昔底德陷阱：当一个老牌强国（修昔底德时代的斯巴达，现在的美国）担心崛起的力量（当时的雅典，现在的中国）时，很难避免战争。
Second, China may become ensnared in the so-called Thucydides Trap: when an established power (Sparta in Thucydides’ time; the United States now) fears a rising power (Athens then; China now), war becomes inevitable.