President Xi said the world is facing “Huge Changes, Unseen in a Hundred Years”. This is no exaggeration. Indeed, the recent China-US relations crisis, and more so, US president Trump’s unconventional approach to international relations, are a good sign and indicator. Harvard professor Graham Allison has been running around the world scaring people with his “Thucydides’ Trap” while he should have stayed in Washington lobbying his government. Because, according to his own study, it is the declining dominant power who is the most likely one to initiate a war.