Centre for Strategic Thinking

About Us

The Centre for Strategic Thinking, founded on 8 November 2019, is a Beijing-based independent research, analytical, and advisory think tank. We would define it as a nonprofit-driven knowledge sharing centre or platform. The initiative is not affiliated to any governments, organizations or institutions.

We value of deep and creative thinking and thoughts, as well as of the unity between knowledge and practice. Our goal is to promote knowledge sharing, forge mutual understanding and cooperation, and contribute to problem-solving on core issues of regional and international concern through conducting research, analysis, and exchanges. We also help facilitate cultural exchanges a...　　more >>

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The Coronavirus, the United States, and The World

By 4 May, the number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 in the United States has totalled more than 1,157,687, and over 67,674 people have died so far.1 Since the outbreak began, the U.S. government has subseq...　more >>

Our Views

Re-thinking of the “Thucydides’s Trap” Argument

Thucydides, who lived in ancient Greece around 2500 years ago, is the author of History of the Peloponnesian War, which recorded the conflicts between the two Greek city-states Sparta and Athens. Thucydides’s work set the foundation of the realist tradition.

The most well-known argument in Thucydides’s masterpiece is that the root cause of the great conflict between Athens and Sparta was the rising of Athens and the fear this caused in Sparta.

In other words, Athens and Sparta were caught in a security dilemma or security trap, which, as many have thought, made the war inevitable. Some also name the security trap as “Thucydides’s Trap”. 　more >>