TY - BOOK AU - PENG ER Lam TI - China, the United States, alliances and war: avoiding the thucydides trap? PY - 2016/// KW - CHINA KW - POWER TRANSITION KW - WAR N2 - This article examines the discourse of the Thucydides Trap (TT) and its advent in the United States. Following that is an analysis of China's responsed to the TT and attempts to diffuse this discourse. The article then assesses the lukewarm American response to Chinese overtures to avoid the TT. The next section is a survey of Japan and the Philippines UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2016.1150765 ER -