FALLING INTO THE THUCYDIDES TRAP

Is the Trump administration abandoning any leverage we may have to protect the autonomy of Hong Kong? Thom is joined by Hong Kong expert Wilfred Chan, a contributing writer to The Nation magazine. Will China's aggressive moves to dismantle democracy in Hong Kong lead to the Thucydides Trap as a rising power confronts a declining one? Will Trump be able to distract us from the real dangers in the world- and his own corruption- with nonsense and bluster? And will history ultimately be kind or unkind to his administration?