China hijacked climate summit, says Miliband

AFP ^ | December 21, 2009

[george76]

CHINA "hijacked'' the Copenhagen summit by blocking a legally-binding treaty, Britain's Climate Change Secretary David Miliband said.

China vetoed attempts to give legal force to the accord reached at the United Nations climate summit.

It also blocked an agreement on reductions in global emissions...

"This was a chaotic process dogged by procedural games,''

The summit set a commitment to limit global warming to 2C but did not spell out the important global emissions targets for 2020 or 2050 that were the key to holding down temperatures.

It also promised $100 billion for poor nations that risked bearing the brunt of the global warming fallout, but has not given a fixed payout plan.

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s called politics. This so-called “Global Warming” fraud is all politics. The Chinese treated it as politics and they avoided getting sucked into a sucker’s game.

[hinckley buzzard]

Blame China. Now there's a new idea.

[caveat emptor]

via.

[Greysard]

China hijacked climate summit

Of course. That's why they came - to gain advantage among the scared, weak, torn by agendas Western countries.

A good negotiator always has an option to say "no" and walk away; Obama, however, couldn't do that. Once you find yourself in such a position, you will be surrendering ground at the pleasure of the other side, until they have pity on you.

[Mark17]

It also promised $100 billion for poor nations that risked bearing the brunt of the global warming fallout, but has not given a fixed payout plan.

It has always been about the money. It was in the past, it is now, and it will be in the future. Nothing but the money.

[Nuc1]

Thank God for China. Is this world upside down or what.

[org.whodat]

China vetoed attempts to give legal force to the accord reached at the United Nations climate summit.

ROFLOL

[ReneeLynn]

Wow, imagine having representatives who are looking out for the best interest of their own country.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

China's leaders care more about China than our leaders care about the USA. You can't blame the Chinese for looking out for China's interests.

Somehow we've got to rid ourselves of the traitors now running things!

[Enchante]

pretty funny to have a leftist like Miliband take to The Guardian to whine about the ChiComs

it takes an unreal kind of naivete to be surprised that the ChiComs act from motives of national interest and not from soporific leftist cliches about world community

[PGR88]

When exactly did the Chinese become the sensible, rational ones, focusing on economic development, while we became the babbling ideologues?

[FrankR]

"China hijacked climate summit..."

Actually, China has pretty much hijacked America; they have taken pretty much all of our manufacturing base, we are up to our wahzoo in debt to them, and they are gaining on us pretty fast as being the world's superpower.

The weird part about it - as I see it - we did it to ourselves.

Our own government - bowing and bending to special interest groups and entitlement wonks - have raised taxes and regulated us to death, causing companies to seek reasonably priced, union-free labor without punitive and ridiculous regulations. They are moving their operations offshore in order to survive, and then they get called "greedy corporations' by the politicians.

Then these same politicians get on TV with their toothy grins and froth at the mouth because they got their state a new bridge or airport. Does that make up for the millions of jobs they have cost us by running off all the manufacturing?

America was at her stongest when she kept what we need here at home. We have the expertise and the technology to be the world leaders - through greed and lust for power - run all of our greatness, abroad.

If you look around, about everything involving a labor union has either moved offshore, or gained strong competition from foreign made products. Companies find out the millions demanded by unions can be folded back into the research and development of higher quality, and more affordable products than from a union shop.

It's a fact!

But the old "unintended consequences" have kicked in, and once our companies set up companies in these offshore venues, THEIR engineers picked up from there, and are producing good stuff at fair prices. They can make it, package it, and ship it here and still sell it cheaper than we can make it in the USA.

China HAS hijacked us, and it may be too late to turn back now. I'd like to see our taxes and regulations returned to "reasonable", and start bringing back some of our manufacturing base. People are still out there shopping at Walmart - most everything they sell is made in China - so if Americans are buying that stuff, at least if we should be making some of it...thus making jobs for more Americans.

[cranked]

Good! Someone needed to......

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[artaxerces]

A country that produces nothing IS nothing.