Posted on 09/05/2021 7:15:26 AM PDT by Libloather
China and the US have failed to reach a climate agreement after Biden's climate envoy John Kerry pushed Beijing to make more public pledges before a UN climate summit in November.
"China already has its own plans and road map for achieving its climate goals," an official on the Chinese side was cited in South China Morning Post as saying. The source said further that Beijing wouldn't tolerate Washington telling it what it should do or not do. SCMP summarized of Kerry's proposals:
During talks with Chinese leaders in Tianjin, US climate envoy John Kerry presented a list of proposals for Beijing to accelerate its climate efforts. They included a public commitment to the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of global warming targeted in the 2015 Paris Agreement, a definite time frame for carbon emissions to peak before 2030, and a moratorium on financing overseas coal-fired projects.
So there will be no 'climate agreement' between the US and China despite Kerry's efforts in Tianjin, also as it increasingly appears broader tensions such as on trade or human rights are being linked to climate negotiations.
Despite the US long wanting 'climate diplomacy' to remain a separate issue apart from its wider disputes with China, such as on trade and human rights, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is now warning deteriorating ties threaten joint efforts to tackle global warming and climate change.
Wang informed Biden's US climate envoy John Kerry during the latter's visit to the Chinese city of Tianjin on Thursday that "climate cooperation cannot be separated from the wider environment" of US-China relations.
The Chinese top diplomat likened the potential for close US-China cooperation on climate to an "oasis" and explained, "But surrounding the oasis is a desert, and the oasis could be desertified very soon."
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Effin' Kerry is a covid superspreader?
Did you know Kerry was in Vietnam?
The CCP does not hand out participation trophies. My feeling is they’re not going to give the US a single break on anything. “Break” means any sort of propaganda win. Not even one.
Skerry put on a diaper, beat a rattle on the side of his head and yelled and screamed a lot. Typical diplomatic behavior
“Kerry fails.” Two words that always go well together.
Why would China need to sign on? They are already communist.
If the global warming is the worst threat to humanity, as the military leaders tell Bidet, then, to save humanity, we MUST invade and destroy China!
Anything else would be criminal!
No. I didn’t know that.
He should have been swift boated.
Wish we had an administration that felt we should be number one.
Did Kerry wear a hat in the jungle?
Why didn’t he take James Taylor along with him?
So applies to Kerry
I think they are supposed to meet later on a “country road”
The Chinese, unlike Kerry, realize that without reliable, relatively cheap electricity there is poverty, social and political unrest. The Chinese will burn coal and anything combustible ( including Kerry) to generate the necessary electricity to avoid economic, social and political instability.
Corrected.
Skerry was packing knee pads ?
Did you know Kerry was a traitor to the United States?
Their culture doesn’t recognize “win-win”, only “we win”. They understand the climate nonsense would hurt China in order to advance unscientific voodoo feel-good crapola so it’s a no-brainer for them. Regardless of what they say it will always be China First.
..... The Chinese will burn coal and anything combustible ( including Kerry) to generate the necessary electricity to avoid economic, social and political instability.......
So true and a very funny comment !
Unlike the decadent half of the American population, the Chinese are not gullible and functionally stupid.
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