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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China has never accepted a single restriction or specific goal regarding the “climate scam” and never will.
They know how to benefit while the rest of the world hogties itself.
Every time a natural disaster happens, it’s blamed on climate change. Well, if it’s already here, as Schumer & deBlasio have said a couple of days ago, what’s the point of trying to stop it? It’s closing the barn door after the horse is already out.
Nature will run its course no matter how many people ride their bicycles to work.
Kerry and Blinken are jokes to the Chinese who kick sand in their faces.
I always forget that this ancient skeleton is still around.
..ignore foreign countries entreats, build many more coal burning plants, take over the world, etc.
In this context the CCP is not so much an ideological threat but a commercial rival to the USA. Our loss their gain, directly measurable in monetary terms.
Yep, the Chinese may give it lip service but will be damned if it actually means making any kind of actual effort or cost.
He’s a walking, talking moron.
The US doesn’t have a Government now so the Chinese Communist Party is telling Kerry to GET STUFFED
China to Kerry: “Vassals don’t tell their masters what to do. Piss off Medal Boy”
The Western nations destroying their industries for “Climate Change” and now “Covid” has been the best thing to happen to the ChiComs, economically and militarily.
Thanks to the Globalists and the Democrats, China is now strong enough to tell the United States or any combination of countries (US included or not) to f-off when they feel like it.
...and that’s EXACTLY what’s happening now. It’s no different than Sierra Leone threatening to impose import duties on our food if we don’t agree with their restrictive abortion laws.
China can see weakness and will take full advantage of it.
“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. “
Translation - shove it!
On which side?
China is just upping the ante.
They want Taiwan, more one-way trade, and some public kowtows.
If climate change was really a crisis, Kerry would fly commercial and live in a modest home.
China is still building coal plants and can’t see anything changing in the next ten years.
The Paris Climate Accords were already a political farce, giving emitters China and India a pass well into the future. Just like Afghanistan for 20 years, America's politicians simply claimed progress and success to keep the fiction going.
China has now said "screw you" to any changes or limitations to fake climate goals, and also removing the facade of reality from Western Pols climate propaganda.
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