Trump Walked Into China and Killed Kissinger's Thucydides Trap

Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — Susan Kokinda analyzes President Trump’s May 14 post responding to Xi Jinping’s remarks about the “Thucydides Trap,” arguing media coverage framed the U.S. as declining while Trump asserted America’s renewed strength. She says the summit’s real significance was Trump bringing an unprecedented delegation of top U.S. CEOs into the bilateral meeting and including the Defense Secretary, breaking a post-1972 pattern. Kokinda highlights Trump raising denuclearization directly with Xi and rejecting war-driven “geopolitical trigger points,” including on Taiwan, emphasizing avoiding a distant war. She contends the Thucydides Trap concept popularized by Graham Allison is British-influenced “fake history” that obscures imperial manipulation, and claims Trump is dismantling that paradigm by reviving the American System—tariffs, manufacturing, and energy independence. 🇺🇸 America 250 Merch drop, featuring Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton: https://shop.prometheanaction.com/collections/america-250-founding-fathers-collection-17762026 🔗 ALL PAID subscribers get access to all the citations, links and resources used to write this script https://www.prometheanaction.com/#/portal/account/plans 👉 *Make a one-time donation to Promethean Action* https://donate.prometheanaction.com/donate_social_otm?recruiter_id=139893 00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Trump Walked Into China and Killed Kissinger's Thucydides Trap - May 16, 2026 02:43 The Real Power Trump Brought to Beijing 09:56 Inside the British Cookbook