Joseph Nye Claims Trump Supporters Are a Greater Threat Than China

At least Nye is consistent ... consistently wrong about the implications of China’s rise.  

Joseph Nye, the emeritus professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and former foreign policy adviser to Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama, who has advocated continued engagement with China even as the Chinese Communist regime looks to seize control of Taiwan and replace the United States as the world’s leading power, uses his syndicated column to accuse Donald Trump and his populist-nationalist supporters — close to half the voting public — of being a greater threat to America than the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Voters, embittered by loss of jobs to Chinese imports, Nye wrote, “responded readily to Trump’s populism and protectionism.”
Nye writes that the United States has “soft power” advantages over China that give it a “strong hand in the twenty-first-century great-power competition.” But he worries that Trump and his populist-nationalist followers — if they regain power — will weaken America and lead to its decline. Nye has been preaching his “soft power” mantra for decades now, but China’s leaders know that it is “hard power” that wins international rivalries. (READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: China’s Defense Minister Is Now an Admiral. What Does That Mean for Taiwan?)
Nye worked for three failed foreign policy presidents, though in his most recent book Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump he has the chutzpah to rank Clinton, Obama, and Carter ahead of Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, and George H.W. Bush. Nye in that book revealed himself to be nothing more than a partisan advocate who uses academic theories to support his preferred candidates — which are always Democrats. And now, Nye joins the leftist media narrative repeated daily on MSNBC that Trump and his followers are the greatest threat to America. 
In an interview this past October, Nye calls himself a “liberal realist,” though he is anything but realistic about China’s rise and its long-term goals. U.S. policymakers have been engaging China since the early 1970s. During the...