Posted on 09/10/2021 8:35:59 PM PDT by bitt
Analysts are portraying this week’s visit to China by U.S. presidential envoy John Kerry as a diplomatic embarrassment, with Chinese leaders giving no ground on Kerry’s appeal for cooperation on climate change and offering him only video meetings with senior officials.
“The Taliban got a better reception” when a delegation from the Afghan insurgent group met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on July 28, noted Anders Corr, a longtime China observer and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk.
The chilly treatment of Kerry reflects how much an increasingly assertive China’s approach to Washington has changed in just a few months.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s appointment of Kerry, a former secretary of state and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as a special envoy for climate issues was initially greeted in China as an opportunity in which to engage with a new U.S. administration. Under Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump, U.S. policies toward Beijing were seen by some as overly hawkish, and by others as rightfully assertive.
“The climate issue could be our new ping pong diplomacy,” hopefully suggested an article in the Global Times, a branch of China’s state media conglomerate.
The constructive attitude continued during Kerry’s initial visit to Shanghai in April, which concluded with a joint statement listing several concrete steps to reduce carbon emissions and pledges of cooperation between the sides “to tackle the climate crisis.”
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He should have ordered the lamb congee instead.
When kerry lose face, he lose a lot.
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China refused senior officals in person meetings with JF’nK - the envoy later asked him via video,
“why the wong face”??
Calling it “ping pong” diplomacy is probably not a good start with the Chinese.
“He should have ordered the lamb congee”
Or the salmon mousse.
Xi & the chinese have no respect for the zhou bai din regime
They’ve disrespected blinken & kerry. Threaten our generals & have pix on hunter
LOL
He really does look like a horse face, doesn’t he?
Did Ketchup Boy try to add Ketchup to his suchi?
Or his sushi.
The Chinese realize that without reliable, relatively cheap electricity, there is poverty, social unrest and political instability. They will burn anything combustible to generate that electricity. Kerry and the rest of the Biden cabal are astonished that they are so easily able to stall the US economy with their green fantasies but the Chinese simply won’t agree to harm their country
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/politics/john-kerry-climate-china/index.html
even Jerry Brown thinks this is a stoooopid idea...
China? Climate change?
11 Sept: Star: China-Australia relations: as demand for coal surges, how long can Beijing keep banning Australian supply?
By CISSY ZHOU and SU-LIN TAN
Even as China’s steel production has cooled down in the past two months, the price of coking coal – which is mixed with iron ore to make steel – has remained relatively high.
For instance, it exceeded 4,000 yuan (US$620) per tonne in some parts of coal hub Shanxi province last week – a surge of more than 45 per cent since the beginning of August, according to Kaiyuan Securities.
Chinese producers usually start to hoard coal from mid-October, but given that the prices have been rising recently, they will start to hoard earlier this year
Li Rong, Cinda Securities...
According to Li Rong, an analyst at Cinda Securities, this means that China’s total annual consumption of thermal coal – which is currently about 3 billion tonnes, with roughly 2.7 billion sourced domestically and the rest imported – is on track to increase by about 10 per cent for the whole year. If that figure holds up, it would require China to source an additional 300 million tonnes of thermal coal to meet demand...
Thirty-six open-pit mines in the autonomous region have renewed land approvals since late August, and land approvals will be granted to mines with an annual capacity of nearly 50 million tonnes in mid-September, according to data published by the state-run Economic Information Daily...
The Chinese government has also urged coal-mining companies to stop hoarding at ports, to ensure a steady coal supply...
Since the conflict between the two countries escalated in April 2020 after Australia pushed for an international investigation into the origin of the coronavirus without diplomatically consulting China, Beijing has unofficially restricted imports of several Australian goods, including coal...
“Australian coal, that otherwise would have gone to China, has found buyers in other markets including India, South Korea and Taiwan”...
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2021/09/11/china-australia-relations-as-demand-for-coal-surges-how-long-can-beijing-keep-banning-australian-supply
7 Sept: Sydney Morning Herald: China’s ban on Australian coal has an expensive sting in its tail
Indeed, while the iron ore price has fallen about 34 per cent, from just under $US220 a tonne in mid-July to around $US145 a tonne, Australian metallurgical coal prices have soared from around $US100 a tonne at the start of this year to about $US220 a tonne. In China, the steel mills have been paying as much as $US440 a tonne for metallurgical, or coking, coal...
The super-premium prices China is paying are the unintended consequences of its efforts to punish Australia for the temerity of our leaders asking for proper investigations of the origins of the pandemic, criticising China’s treatment of Uighurs and its actions in Hong Kong.
For the moment, at least, while some of the exports China has targeted haven’t had the ability to adjust as easily or seen their markets recover in the same way as energy and metallurgical coal, the Chinese sanctions are hurting its companies and economy more than Australia’s.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/china-s-ban-on-australian-coal-has-an-expensive-sting-in-its-tail-20210907-p58pij.html
He should’ve brought Hunter with him.
Just go’s to show you that you bargain from power and not weakness.
This pos admin has shown how limp wristed it is.
Everyone knows it’s fake science, now the ones that started the lies are trying to convince each other, china don’t play bozo
Games lurch, and ketchup forget about it..
China refused senior officals in person meetings with JF’nK - the envoy later asked him via video,
“why the wong face”??>>>>>>>>
Wong face my face your face getcha fivee more dollah fah lub jew wrong time!( grin)
They didn’t like his mug...
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