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Pelosi appeals for China's help on climate change
GOOGLE NEWS ^

Posted on 05/28/2009 8:51:32 AM PDT by jakerobins

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Beijing on Thursday to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right.

Speaking at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University, Pelosi continued the theme of her five-day China trip — that combating global warming represented a new challenge that both governments must tackle jointly.

"We are all in this together," Pelosi told an audience of about 200 students and faculty who applauded enthusiastically throughout the 45-minute session. "The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."

Pelosi's trip has been notable for skirting human rights and the fierce public criticisms she has frequently leveled at the authoritarian government.

The trip comes as President Barack Obama's administration has emphasized climate change as a new area where the two governments can broaden already wide-ranging engagement. The two countries are the biggest emitters of the carbon gases that are causing warming temperatures. Both governments are staking out positions ahead of a meeting late this year in Copenhagen that will try to forge agreement on targets and steps to reduce carbon emissions.

In a meeting Wednesday, the head of China's national legislature, Wu Bangguo, told Pelosi that climate change was a common challenge and that Beijing stood ready to work with Washington.

Turning around her usual criticisms about human rights, Pelosi linked global warming to environmental justice, saying the right to a clean environment is also a human right.

"I do see this opportunity for climate change to be ... a game-changer," she said at Tsinghua. "It's a place where human rights — looking out for the needs of the poor in terms of climate change and healthy environment — are a human right."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhochina; china; greens; pelosi
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I laughed out loud...when I read this part....

They also have to do it with openness, transparency and accountability to the people," she said. "Everyone has to have their situation improved by it."

Just like the "Openness" of the Obama administration??

1 posted on 05/28/2009 8:51:32 AM PDT by jakerobins
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I also wonder how much under the table money she received from the CHICOMS? I bet Pelosi will have to exchange it for US DOLLARS since the Chinese no longer back the US DOLLAR.


2 posted on 05/28/2009 8:53:33 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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3 posted on 05/28/2009 8:53:57 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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“Pelosi told an audience of about 200 students and faculty who applauded enthusiastically throughout the 45-minute session.”

This woman is a complete idiot. Probably the translator was saying, “Look! This is the best these Yankee Pigs have!” No wonder they were “applauding enthusiastically”.


4 posted on 05/28/2009 8:56:29 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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Maybe she’ll invite 350 million Chinese over to paint our roofs white?


5 posted on 05/28/2009 8:57:04 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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Hilarious.

China, India, Brazil, the 3 biggest polluters in the world.

Ask the Chinese if they give a damn about the precious “environment” or so called “global warming”, they’d laugh in your face or maybe jail or shoot you.

The left is so concerned with trivia aren’t they? Meanwhile,....Western civilization is dying right in front of their eyes.

China is great if you want to be a worker ant in a hellish anthill.

Good luck nit wit Pelosi. What a clown, what a pathetic, treasonous POS.


6 posted on 05/28/2009 8:57:50 AM PDT by garyhope
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I don’t care what the topic of discussion is for her, I can’t shake the question of why the Speaker of the House is dabbling in international affairs. Where is our SecState, Hitlery?


7 posted on 05/28/2009 9:00:14 AM PDT by IrishPennant (Obama: Succeeding Where Bin Laden Failed)
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8 posted on 05/28/2009 9:03:40 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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Did you laugh out loud when you read this?
" Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory
Quite frankly I find that comment one of the most frightening I have ever heard.
9 posted on 05/28/2009 9:04:38 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Liz Cheney for President!.)
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And we should start with hers.
10 posted on 05/28/2009 9:07:40 AM PDT by ryan71 (We're in deep kimchi!)
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When the Chinese, the North Koreans, the muslims and others look at, and listen to, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Napolitano, Frank, Dodd, Specter, McCain and others holding high government positions in America today it must make their heads spin. They have to be wondering how we ever managed to create the most powerful economy and military in the world and maintain our status as world leader for the last half century and more.

But it is now easy for all to see that the most recent and current crops of buffoons in both parties have put us on a path to acheive third world status in record time.

That is the main reason Obama is cheered when he travels abroad.

11 posted on 05/28/2009 9:09:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Øbama: The muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset”)
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The Chicom Response:

“OK Rady, we cooperate on Crimate...ar you want. Now here, you buy nice shiny thing we make for you.”


12 posted on 05/28/2009 9:10:01 AM PDT by henkster (The GOP is housebroken window-dressing displayed to portray the fiction of a Republic.)
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“Pelosi urged Beijing ...”

Nan, Nan, Nan ... hold one hand out to the Chinese and cup
the other under your posteriors, and see which gets filled
fastest.


13 posted on 05/28/2009 9:11:30 AM PDT by tumblindice (Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh baby .....P-p-p-p-p-p-present!)
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Pelosi can hide out of country for only so long.


14 posted on 05/28/2009 9:11:51 AM PDT by Gator113 (Weak-coward-racist-white hating-lying-traitor= Surrender Monkey in Chief-B. Hussein Obama...)
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Senator Stretch is just stupid.

(Wondering why we let liberal Californians do ANYTHING in government)


15 posted on 05/28/2009 9:24:40 AM PDT by madison10
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Whoops...House Speaker Stretch. LOL


16 posted on 05/28/2009 9:25:37 AM PDT by madison10
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To: jakerobins

Nutzi Pelosi wants to paint the Chinese white.


17 posted on 05/28/2009 9:46:26 AM PDT by pallis
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Did she accuse the Chinese of lying to her yet?


18 posted on 05/28/2009 9:56:55 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Sig Sauer P220

Very nice, very nice. *thumbsup*


19 posted on 05/28/2009 10:06:51 AM PDT by cranked
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Communists lie?? You must be joking!!! Seperated at Birth?? Mabey the chinese will throw a bucket of water on her......
20 posted on 05/28/2009 10:19:43 AM PDT by jakerobins
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