Posted on 01/23/2024 5:19:43 AM PST by Twotone
Six mayors from the United States participated in an exchange with the Chinese government in which they traveled to take part in the U.S. Heartland China Association's Yangtze-Mississippi Municipality Energy Transition Exchange project.
The mayors who made the trip were Mayor Jim Brainard of Carmel, Indiana; Mayor Barbara Buffaloe of Columbia, Missouri; Mayor Lee Harris of Shelby County, Tennessee; Mayor Chokwe Lumumba from Jackson, Mississippi; Mayor Kim Norton of Rochester, Minnesota; and Mayor Robyn Tannehill of Oxford, Mississippi.
The exchange was officially part of an effort to promote best practices between communities along the two major rivers, particularly in regards to "energy transition, climate mitigation, and green economy."
The two sides discussed opportunities for possible collaboration and took a trip to Voyah Automobile, a Chinese-state owned luxury car manufacturer now specializing in electric vehicles. The cars are reportedly sold in Russia, Israel, Turkey, and Belarus, as well as China.
As reported by Natalie Winters, several of the mayors praised China's approach to green energy policies. Specifically, electric vehicle investments and alleged carbon-reducing infrastructure were Chinese policies that some of the mayors hoped to implement in the United States.
"We were talking about climate change," said Columbia, Missouri, Mayor Buffaloe. "I know that in order for us to solve climate change, or at least reduce the impacts it's having on our communities and make sure we have a planet for our future generations, that it's going to take us working on things like electrical vehicle transformation, renewable energy both production, as well as scale and supply."
Buffaloe went on to state that the "best practices" she learned in China should be implemented in American communities.
"It's about our communities learning from one another, sharing these best practices, and then implementing them in our own communities. We need all kinds of exchanges with China."
Shelby County, Tennessee, Mayor Harris praised Chinese investments surrounding carbon emissions.
"China is quickly making the right kinds of investments, and those are investments in infrastructure, that's investments in reducing carbon emissions, that's investments in new tech like electric vehicles, and we've got a lot of work to do."
Mayor Brainard of Carmel, Indiana, said that the work conducted alongside Chinese politicians should be implement worldwide.
"Collaboration between U.S. and Chinese mayors not only benefits the hundreds of millions of people living in our two countries, but the ongoing joint work will lead to best practices that can be applied around the world."
Brainard also signed a sister cities agreement between Carmel, Indiana, and Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
Democrats infatuated with Chinese Commies.
The Global Climate Change narrative has turned into a farce. It’s the song of the dance of marionettes whose strings are controlled by the Oligarchs who pay for the Punch and Judy shows. The only people who believe in it now are the people who get paid to believe it or people who desperately want us to believe it. They have been wrong too long to be taken seriously. It’s just become the latest weak excuse for the New World Order.
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“We were talking about climate change,”
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& NOBODY piped up “Yet, you *had* to fly 1/2 around the world, likely on separate private planes, for that which could have been accomplished via video chat?”
They’re all compromised most likely.
They are building coal plants for short term power needs as they are cheap to build but are also building nuclear plants to replace the coal plants. In 20 years they will be I a good position.
Unfortunately we have NIMBY eff-nuts here that will have the US be Amish in 30years and not competitive in the world markets.
Well stated. The long game in this has been MONEY. From the rubes to the fat and fattening cats. And only in that direction.
Early on was the highly-mourned slime Canadian Maurice Strong. The world's Left cried. A modern Machiavelli, like some of the original Leftist (and corrupt) founders of the EU as a political entity.
The post-Strong types -- like Gore -- have played the same game, and it becomes a farce.
And most importantly, we have only about 7 seven years left! So send the money faster! China thanks everyone, in advance.
The lure of money is the root of all evil and paves the road to ruin. They are like drug junkies who will damn their future for the next fix. The short-sidedness displayed by supposedly highly educated individuals is disgusting.
Six mayors from the United States (Mayor Jim Brainard of Carmel, Indiana; Mayor Barbara Buffaloe of Columbia, Missouri; Mayor Lee Harris of Shelby County, Tennessee; Mayor Chokwe Lumumba from Jackson, Mississippi; Mayor Kim Norton of Rochester, Minnesota; and Mayor Robyn Tannehill of Oxford, Mississippi) participated in giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
If they weren’t compromised before they left, they most assuredly are now...
We had 7 years left over 10 years ago. The movie Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006.
Thanks for basic arithmetic, when the idiots who push this bilge pretend they can "forecast" and show all sorts of charts and fictional stats.
However, this marks us as "green sinners" for recalling what the snake oil salesmen actually said and then they said it.
Money, money, money, money. M O N E Y!
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China must be laughing their rear end off at the stupidity and gullibility of these hayseeds.
Bingo. Baizuos. Useful idiots.
It’s utterly amazing to me how stupid Americans can be towards China.
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