Joseph Nye: Don't magnify China's power

NEW YORK - Prominent US political analyst Joseph Nye has warned against exaggerating China's power, despite some observers in the United States interpreting China's growing clout as a threat to US influence in East Asia.

Nye, university distinguished service professor at Harvard University, said such views could lead to an escalating fear of enmity between the two countries.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, many scholars and journalists have written articles urging China to be more assertive as "the US is in decline", he said.