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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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??
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.
“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”.
Maybe she’ll invite 350 million Chinese over to paint our roofs white?
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.
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?
" Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventoryQuite frankly I find that comment one of the most frightening I have ever heard.
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.
The Chicom Response:
“OK Rady, we cooperate on Crimate...ar you want. Now here, you buy nice shiny thing we make for you.”
“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.
Pelosi can hide out of country for only so long.
Senator Stretch is just stupid.
(Wondering why we let liberal Californians do ANYTHING in government)
Whoops...House Speaker Stretch. LOL
Nutzi Pelosi wants to paint the Chinese white.
Did she accuse the Chinese of lying to her yet?
Very nice, very nice. *thumbsup*
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