Beijing Wants to Sway US Policy To Extract Concessions In Other Areas Using Climate Change, Experts Warn

Epoch Times ^ | 02/19/2021 | Cathy He

[SeekAndFind]

The Biden administration should not allow the Chinese regime to use climate change as a bargaining chip to extract concessions in other areas, according to China experts.

The warning comes as the United States formally rejoined the Paris agreement on Feb. 19. President Joe Biden has described climate change as an “existential threat” and vowed to do more to reduce carbon emissions. But analysts are concerned that this may lead the United States to become cozier with the Chinese regime.

While Biden officials have broadly indicated they would continue the Trump administration’s tough-on-China posture, they have also pointed to “cooperative” aspects of the U.S.-China relationship.

On the campaign trail, Biden said he’d work with the regime in areas of common interest, such as climate change and preventing nuclear proliferation.

Experts fear that U.S. cooperation on climate change could lead the administration to give ground in other key domains such as human rights, trade, and national security.

The Chinese regime has already indicated that United States would have to accept its own terms before the two sides could work together.

“China is ready to cooperate with the United States and the international community on climate change,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijiang said on Jan. 28.

“That said, I’d like to stress that China-U.S. cooperation in specific areas … is closely linked with bilateral relations as a whole,” Zhao continued, adding the regime has repeatedly emphasized that “no one should imagine they could ask China to understand and support them in bilateral and global affairs when they blatantly interfere in China’s domestic affairs and undermine China’s interests.”

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has labeled a range of topics such as its repression of minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet, crackdown in Hong Kong, and intimidation of Taiwan as part of its core interests,

[DoughtyOne]

The Chinese wanting to game the president?

Wow! I never saw that coming! /s

[Don Corleone]

Expect the worst. Biden and the left(and much of the right too) are bought and paid for.

[yoe]

Climate Change is not about the environment, they use the environment to get more taxes from the people....it is about POWER and wealth...it is about CAPITALISM...not for me and you but for them. John Kerry probably has James Taylor on call........

[mosesdapoet]

The CCP’s (China Communist Party) newspaper The Global Times has endorsed Biden Claiming he would be the easiest to work with.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3876187/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877139/posts#8
here is just some of the million$ that the Biden’s are involved in
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3820191/posts also Clinton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3881585/posts