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Since the dawn of the new century, the world has witnessed extraordinary events in China. The result has brought about great changes in the economic strength, as well as the international status and role of China.
Thanks to the hard efforts by the Chinese people as well as the world community, China has surged to be the world's second largest economy, and it is believed it will overtake the US in the next decade to become the largest economy in the world.
Against such a backdrop, some people began to talk about the "Thucydides Trap." The term comes from an oft-quoted line from the Greek historian Thucydides, who famously wrote, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."
The term is used to describe the phenomenon of a rising power provoking so much fear in a status quo power that it ultimately leads to conflict between the two. Unfortunately, China is wrongly perceived as such a rising power even though it has no intention whatsoever to rival the US as a ruling power.
When China is on its own way to the status of a global power following three decades of peaceful development, it is simply understandable that some people in the West, especially in the US, will ask this question: Will China as the rising power inevitably challenge the dominant position of the US as a ruling power?
Let me tell you what an ancient Chinese sage said: "One should never gauge the heart of a noble man with one's own mean measures."
China's initiative of "a new type of major power relationship" is the answer to the above question.
In this process, what kind of a role can the media play?
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