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Avoiding ‘Thucydides’ Trap’

On March 31, during his recent visit to China, Neil Bush, founder and Chair of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, spoke with Beijing Review reporter Tao Xing and shared his views on bilateral relations as well as China’s green development. Edited excerpts from the interview follow:

Beijing Review: Since your first trip to China in 1975, you reportedly have visited over 140 times and seen more than 40 Chinese cities. What keeps you coming back?

My first trip to China was in 1975, when my father was representing the United States as chief liaison officer in China. He was commonly known as the “bicycling ambassador” because our family would ride our bikes in

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