China as a country has had a radical shift in poverty in recent decades and is seemingly entering a new era of technological innovation that is widely believed to inevitably lead to China’s global economic dominance in the coming years. The Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University allowed Graham Allison to lead a case study in order to test the Thucydides Trap hypothesis, finding that in the last 500 years 12 out of 16 instances of changing global power dynamics ultimately ended in war. Is the emergence of China as a threat to the global power of the United States?