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Last week I discussed the ironic role that America's dominant Neocons may have played in shaping recent world events, perhaps inadvertently producing a beneficial outcome exactly contrary to their aggressive intent. Over the last decade, prominent political scientists such as Graham Allison of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago had argued that a centuries-long pattern suggested that the world was locked into a 'Thucydides Trap,' the likelihood of a looming clash between the reigning global power of America and the rising global power of China.  This political and potentially military conflict had nothing to do with the