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...United States’ policy towards China over the last decade has worked, former Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean Joseph S. Nye told an audience that packed the school’s forum last night...
...Nye, who was involved in setting China policy as assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, said that “China is one of the rare instances where, between Clinton and Bush, policies have remained roughly the same.” He said both administrations had sought to “balance and integrate” China, and said that this combination of boosting China’s neighbors while welcoming China into the international community had proven highly effective...
...Nye was joined by Lan Xue, a professor at the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy in Beijing, as well as two Harvard scholars—an emeritus professor, Ezra F. Vogel, and the director of KSG’s China Public Policy Program, Anthony J. Saich—on a panel about “China’s soft power...
...Soft power” is a term coined by Nye, initially with reference to the United States. In a 2004 Foreign Affairs article, he described “soft power” as the “ability to attract others by the legitimacy of U.S. policies and the values that underlie them.” China, the panel observed, is increasingly using diplomacy, culture, and popular appeal to conduct its foreign policy...
...Harvard proctor’s e-mail to Nye Barth contained several judgments on specific admissions decisions. It described one undergraduate as “a felicitous admit off the waiting list.” And the e-mail suggests multiple undergraduates, including those mentioned earlier, would have benefited from a “gap” year—a situation in which the College requires admits to take a year off before matriculating, a fairly common practice...