“I hope I am wrong,” Minihan, who heads the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, wrote in an internal memo, which circulated on social media, to the leadership of its 110,000 members. Four-Star General Mike Minihan warned his troops of China: “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.” (The Pentagon says that Minihan’s comments “are not representative of the department’s view on China.”) Endorsers point to resurgent nationalism, concerted military build-ups, and increasingly bellicose rhetoric on both sides-arguably the most worrying of which emerged Friday, when U.S. Objectors cite intertwined supply chains, established international governance mechanisms, and bilateral trade that reached a record $760 billion last year. Today, the “Thucydides Trap” is most often used to describe fractious U.S.-China relations and where they may lead-though the inevitability of armed conflict is a matter of hot debate.
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