Senior White House Official: The 'Chinese Are Dug In'; 'We've Done What We Can' in Copenhagen

ABC News ^ | December 18, 2009 | By Jake Tapper

[MaestroLC]

"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they're living up to their end of the agreement."

After landing in Denmark early this morning, President Obama met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a bilateral at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to press the case that China needs to allow for transparency.

"The President's priority is to make our economy far more focused on a clean energy economy that creates jobs," the official said. "He is here to work constructively and participate in hoping to get an international accord. But not getting one here won't change wanting to transform our economy to create the new foundation he's talked about."

[Carley]

The Chinese government is not going to be bullied by the green wackos.

[Recovering_Democrat]

[RC2]

China, as well as most other countries, have little or no respect for our President. In the past, our country would attend meetings like this from a stand point of power and respect. No longer. Our President,if you can call him that, is a second class leader.

[blam]

Excellent.

The Chinese and Indians may have saved the US for a few more years.

[discostu]

Never thought I’d be grateful to the Chinese.

[hoosier hick]

Obama only has 150 million disgruntled people in this country. The Chinese are more concerned about having 1.2 billion disgruntled....

hh

[BP2]

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

[a fool in paradise]

Today’s weather: FAILSTORM

[jonno]

Who has the picture “here is your load of Fail”?

[HerrBlucher]

Wow, we are all rooting for China, this really is bizarro world.....whatever....Right ON China, stick it to our present-dent!!!!

[rdl6989]

And to add insult to injury the weather forecast for Zero’s return to DC is just lovely, for a polar bear that is.

[penelopesire]

PING! Comments at ABC blog are running 100% anti-Obama...ROTFLOL!! Keep up the great work folks. I have noticed this happening at many media comment sites of late.

Where have all the Obots gone?...LOL(we should set that to the music of ‘Where have all the flowers gone?’)

[MrB]

I’m seriously wondering why he didn’t offer “unilateral disarmament” on the climate issue.

This IS the way of leftists.

“Oh, you won’t agree to curb your emissions? Well, we’ll agree to do it anyway.”

[paulycy]

"This unprecedented act by China was unexpected and clearly we inherited this distraction from the world-wide distrust created by George Bush."

[tet68]

One can only hope that Hillery!’s epic fail to pull this
out of a hat will not go un-noticed by the Ohnono administration.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

All good news.....until you get to that last couple of sentences:

.....hoping to get an international accord. But not getting one here won't change wanting to transform our economy to create the new foundation he's talked about.

THAT sends a chill all the way to my toes.

[headstamp 2]

China and Russia save us from ourselves. Unbelievable.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I can’t believe that a time has come in my life where I am siding with China against an American Administration.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Today is the first day of the rest of the lame duck Administration of Barack Hussein Obama, so soon after the oath of office and the take-two.

Obama is not healthy for children and other living things.

I'd like to teach the world to scream, in perfect harmony.

Unprecedented.

[GnuHere]

LOL