Fear is developing among even some of the hard-core Anglophile establishment that the current trajectory of U.S. relations with China could lead to nuclear war. Harvard Professor Emeritus Joseph Nye, considered a big international relations “guru,” issued his warning in an interview with “Thought Economics” published Aug. 25. Asked what his greatest fears for today’s world are, Nye responded:
“In the short-run, my fear would be that we’ve mismanaged the relationship with China through miscalculation to produce a 1914-like situation. I think it’s a low-probability outcome, but it could of course be mismanaged. Similarly, there’s obviously the danger of nuclear weapons and a miscalculation leading to their use, and inevitably therefore, catastrophic outcomes”