“A fight between China and the US is like a fight between parents; no one wants to stand on the sidelines.” Yang Rongwen, the former foreign minister of Singapore, used this analogy to show the common concerns of all parties in the Asia-Pacific region about the competition between China and the US. He believes that China is aware of the self-destructive nature of hegemony from its own history, while the West is accustomed to understanding China's rise through the “Thucydides Trap,” starting from its own historical experience.

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