Wang Xiaohui,
editor-in-chief of China.org.cn,
maked an exclusive interview with Political scientist Joseph
S. Nye, on Jan. 10.
Joseph Nye, accepted as one of the most influential scholar in
international relations and between American foreign policymaker’s, said these:
- Some today are looking at China-U.S. relations through a Cold War lens, even labeling the two sides as "strategic adversaries.
- Rather than focusing on the negative aspects of the two countries' current relationship, people should think cooperatively, as transnational challenges are impossible to resolve without cooperation. In the face of climate change, for example, No way can the U.S. solve that problem without working with China. No way can China solve that problem without working with the U.S. Noting the same is true when it comes to financial stability, dealing with pandemics, and other issues. So as we think about this, yes there will be tension, but there has to be cooperation.
- · During the Cold War, there was almost no trade and no social relations. Today with China, we have obviously massive trade. And we have 370,000 Chinese students in the U.S. and millions of tourists going in both directions. This is not like the Cold War. And we should not use the language of cold war. I've called it a cooperative rivalry.
- · China has been following a smart power strategy since the 17th CPC National Congress. The "economic miracle" of poverty eradication has far-reaching benefits.
- · China has much to be proud of. If you look at what has happened in China, of raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, that's good for China. That's good for all of humanity.
- From 1978, when the reform and opening up policy was first adopted, to 2017, China has lifted 740 million people out of poverty, contributing more than 70 percent to global poverty alleviation work in the past 40 years.
- China should continue its effort in increasing its soft power, because China's hard power, economic and military, is growing. But if China can also increase its soft power of attractiveness, it makes that more acceptable to other countries.
- U.S. President Trump has damaged American soft power with his "America First" rhetoric, as well as his decision to drop out of the Paris climate accord and other international agreements. You can see this by public opinion polls. When you have a slogan like 'America First,' it makes everybody else feel second. So it may be a good slogan for American domestic opinion. It's a very bad slogan for international opinion. In contrast to Trump's "America First" policy, Chinese President Xi Jinping's concept of "building a community with a shared future for mankind" reflects a collaborative spirit required in today's global climate. President Xi's slogan is a way of illustrating that type of cooperation. It's something which is going to be essential for all mankind. I sometimes say that we have to learn not about power over others but power with others. The power with others.
- Source: China.org.cn
*Who is Joseph S. Nye ?
Joseph S. Nye is University Distinguished
Service Professor and former dean of Harvard’s
John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He has also worked in three
government agencies. From 1977 to 1979, Nye served as Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on
Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In recognition of his service, he
received the highest Department of State commendation, the Distinguished Honor
Award. In 1993 and 1994, he was chair of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence
estimates for the President. He was awarded the Intelligence Community’s
Distinguished Service Medal. In 1994 and 1995, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs, where he also won the Distinguished Service
Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
He serves on several non-profit boards: as co-chair (with Brent Scowcroft)
of the Aspen Strategy Group, chair
of the North American Group of the
Trilateral Commission, a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chair of the Pacific Forum, and a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also on
advisory boards for TOTAL, Mitsubishi, and the Defense Department.
He has served as a director of the
Institute for East-West Security Studies, a director of the International Institute for Strategic
Studies, a member of the advisory committee of the Institute of International Economics, and the American
representative on the United Nations
Advisory Committee on Disarmament Affairs. He has been a trustee of Wells College and of Radcliffe College. He is the recipient
of the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University, the Charles Merriam
Award from the American Political Science Association, and the Palmes
Academiques from the French government.
İn 2014, he has been listed as the fifth most influential scholar in
international relations and the most influential scholar on American foreign
policymaker’s.
·
The scholars’ favorites
1- Alexander Wendt
2- Robert Keohane
3- James Fearon
4- John Mearsheimer
5- Joseph Nye
6- Robert Jervis
7- Martha Finnemore
8- Peter Katenstein
·
The policymakers’ favorites
1- Joseph Nye
2- Samuel Huntington
3- Henry Kissinger
4- Francis Fukuyama
5- Zbigniew Brzezinski
6- Robert Jervis
7- Thomas Schelling
8- Fareed Zakaria
He is the author of thirteen
books and more than a hundred and fifty articles in professional and policy
journals.
His most recent publications
are The Powers to Lead (2008),
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
(2004), an anthology, Power in the
Global Information Age (2004), a textbook Understanding International Conflict, The Power Game: A Washington Novel (2004),
and in 2011 The Future of Power which
The
Economist called “rigorous and convincing”.
