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"If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere", declared US’s 56th Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Today’s relationship between two major powers of modernity – the United States and China – is gradually turning into a crisis. Countries face the "Thucydides trap", and none of them could assert to have a complex strategy towards each other – that is nothing but the road getting them nowhere. As centuries ago, Sparta and Athens had no other choice rather than teer on the brink of war, in modern conditions a balance of power framework is the most relevant, accurate, and comprehensive approach to US-China relations.