That’s not even a valid analogy, but let’s play Xi’s game. Xi says he’s Athens coming up in a world dominated by Sparta and the Spartan League - which is us in Xi’s allusion.
Spoiler alert... Sparta initiated the war and Sparta won. If he, as Athens in his delusion, invades Taiwan to trigger a war, the analogy falls apart even more.
No. America has not “already fallen into the trap.”
And, you know what, I’ll add this.
Sparta tried to trigger Athens into an open land war, which Athens had no hope of winning, by burning all the crops in the rural areas around Athens. Gee, does that sound like China buying up all of our farmland? And Athens repeatedly refused to respond. Eventually Athens was forced into a purely defensive war when Sparta sieged the city.
How is Xi’s analogy even remotely related to our current relationship with China?
It’s not.