The rise of China is one of the most defining political events of twentyfirst-century world politics. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Chinese foreign policy has become more assertive, as seen from its behavior in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. In the next decade or two, China’s challenges to the existing international order seem inevitable in all aspects. Scholars and pundits have been debating China’s rise as well as its implications for world politics for decades. Graham T. Allison has warned that China and the United States might fall into the so-called Thucydides’s Trap, because a war is more likely to take place between a rising power and a ruling state when their power gap narrows. Thucydides’s Trap is a term that Allison coins from the ancient Greek historian Thucydides who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War. As Thucydides explained regarding the cause of the Peloponnesian War, “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable."