https://www.scmp.com/rss/525548/feed Marshall Li is a geopolitical and technology analyst at The Asia Group. He studied political economy and history at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Cambridge, and was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Marshall Li Marshall Li In Beijing, strategic elites have started to see world politics as sliding from the Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States era. However, if China believes the old order is falling apart, its future will depend less on economic power and more on presenting a reliable political vision. For much of the past decade, the dominant framework for understanding China-US relations has been the Thucydides Trap. Since Graham Allison popularised the term, the relationship has been cast as an... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3349637/global-warring-states-era-begins-china-must-plan-future?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3349637/global-warring-states-era-begins-china-must-plan-future?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:30:08 +0000