{"id":147605,"date":"2026-05-16T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/?p=147605"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:00:36","slug":"trump-xi-jinping-thucydide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/16\/trump-xi-jinping-thucydide\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Xi Jinping & Thucydide<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00ab Ce furent l’essor d’Ath\u00e8nes et la crainte que cela inspira \u00e0 Sparte qui rendirent la guerre in\u00e9vitable \u00bb, cette citation de Thucydide a fait la une de la journ\u00e9e d’hier, dans la bouche de Xi Jinping recevant Donald Trump \u00e0 P\u00e9kin.<\/p>\n

L’avertissement est-il encore n\u00e9cessaire quand on a vu r\u00e9cemment les \u00c9tats-Unis consommant en quelques semaines des quantit\u00e9s consid\u00e9rables d\u2019armements sophistiqu\u00e9s dans des op\u00e9rations aux r\u00e9sultats strat\u00e9giquement incertains contre une puissance r\u00e9gionale ?<\/p>\n

La guerre du P\u00e9loponn\u00e8se dura 27 ans. Xi Jinping laisse entendre que le point de cristallisation du conflit sino-am\u00e9ricain serait Taiwan. L\u2019horizon symbolique est connu : 2049, centenaire de la R\u00e9publique populaire de Chine. Il reste donc vingt-trois ans pour faire mieux que Sparte et Ath\u00e8nes – avec cet avantage consid\u00e9rable sur elles : nous avons lu Thucydide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u00ab Ce furent l’essor d’Ath\u00e8nes et la crainte que cela inspira \u00e0 Sparte qui rendirent la guerre in\u00e9vitable \u00bb, cette citation de Thucydide a fait la une de la journ\u00e9e d’hier, dans la bouche de Xi Jinping recevant Donald Trump \u00e0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4489,72,1627],"tags":[12025,1630,40,4442,11513,4475,10056,1590,12019,12022,12018,12024,12023,12026,12021,12020,12027,4661,12017,5129],"class_list":["post-147605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chine","category-etats-unis","category-geopolitique-2","tag-12025","tag-athenes","tag-chine","tag-donald-trump","tag-equilibre-des-puissances","tag-etats-unis","tag-futur-de-lhumanite","tag-geopolitique","tag-guerre-du-peloponnese","tag-histoire-antique","tag-piege-de-thucydide","tag-puissance-dominante","tag-puissance-montante","tag-republique-populaire-de-chine","tag-rivalite-sino-americaine","tag-sparte","tag-strategie-mondiale","tag-taiwan","tag-thucydide","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147608,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147605\/revisions\/147608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}