In less than a year, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, flew to China again. This time, he is carrying a new task: to promote a new product of "coffee+olive oil" to the largest market of global coffee brand stores. The coffee fruit, which had already grown in the Horn of Africa before the birth of human civilization, has "spread" to the world as humans move from dispersion to aggregation. Now, it is witnessing a new era - humanity is increasingly becoming a community with a shared future where there is both self and self within us. Just like Starbucks' new product, Arabica coffee beans from Latin America and Africa are miraculously blended with Italian olive oil by Chinese baristas and sold to coffee enthusiasts from all over the world in a bustling store in Shanghai by an American company. This kind of Starbucks is neither "made in the United States" nor "made in China", to be precise, it is "made globally". This is a drone photo taken on September 19, 2023 at Starbucks China Coffee Innovation Industrial Park in Kunshan, Jiangsu. This witty, humorous, and philosophical Q&A class left a deep impression on Allison, the creator of the Thucydidean Trap and founding dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Now, Allison has a new perspective: we should draw on the wisdom of Chinese history and the concept of "you have me, I have you", explore ways to overcome the "Thucydidean trap", and achieve mutual dependence and common development between China and the United States. In order to achieve a better future for China US relations, at the conceptual level, we should abandon zero sum game thinking and establish a cooperative and win-win mentality. For some American politicians who hold the view that "you lose and I win, you rise and I fall", it is especially important to abandon the influence of "Western centrism" and colonial culture, and break free from the historical inertia of "American particularism" and Cold War thinking, because the "global south" has awakened, developing countries are rapidly rising, and the world cannot return to the past. Between China and the United States, there are stories of victories in defeating fascism and militarism, development stories of trade volume increasing more than 200 times in the 45 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, and collaborative stories of working together in the face of the international financial crisis and overcoming difficulties. More realistically, in a world of countless households, the new normal is to suffer losses and prosper together. If one blindly pursues "winning" the other party, it is easy to fall into a double loss dilemma, which will drag down the entire world. According to reports from the National Committee on US China Trade and the Oxford Institute of Economics, terminating permanent normal trade relations with China will bring economic losses of $1.6 trillion to the United States within 5 years; And the International Monetary Fund has long warned that the tense US China relationship may cause global tensions
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