Nepal, April 16 -- Maintaining a strategic balance between China, India and the US-led Western world remains a challenge for Nepal. But some recent events show we may be losing this balance

The Trump administration in the US has come up with the Indo-Pacific doctrine which in many ways is a restatement of Barak Obama's pivot to Asia, known as the rebalance doctrine. Both doctrines are of the same origin and carry a shadow of the famous Thucydides trap that was popularized by Harvard Professor Graham Allison in the 1990s.

Trap doctrine

The trap doctrine states that there is a high probability of tension leading to war between a rising and an established power competing for influence and domination. As a historian Thucydides observed tha...