Improbable War: China The United States WORLD HISTORY First Half of 1927: The

First Half of 1927: The Convention of Chiefs

that the battle for social progress and equality must reclaim its legitimacy

not only in the hereafter but during our time on Planet Earth too

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Improbable War: China The United States WORLD HISTORY First Half of 1927: TheThe Improbable War explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and popular though the First World War analogy is, the lessons we draw from its outbreak are usually mistaken. Among these errors is the tendency to over estimate human rationality. All major conflicts of the past 300 years have been about the norms and rules