China is a rising power whose very rise presents threats to international stability. Economic interdependence has been singled out a way to get out of the "Thucydides Trap." However, the optimism disregards the other aspect of economic interdependence, which is asymmetric interdependence and vulnerability. For over a decade, China has been wielding its stick of economic interdependence in order to pursue its interests rather than been restrained by concerns for opportunity costs from ruptured trade. Beijing puts pressures upon Seoul and Tokyo. China would also likely use its financial leverage to do so against the United States. Under the current circumstances, a "balance of financial terror" seems to prevail, but the recent crisis in the U.S. financial system and the consequential recessions in the American product markets decreased the level of economic interdependence between the two. Therefore, China will be less restrained by the "balance of financial terror" and more likely to wield its power of asymmetric interdependence even against the United States. In order to prevent such economic duels between two great powers, the world trade system should be maintained liberal and open, while economic interdependence is to be kept mutual and symmetric rather than asymmetric.