Posted on 11/11/2021 5:51:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
When Xie Zhenhua, China’s top climate negotiator, took to the podium Wednesday at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow to announce a U.S.–China declaration on methane emissions and other issues, he revealed that his team had met their American counterparts some 30 times, including twice in China, in Tianjin.
So a reporter asked America’s lead negotiator, John Kerry, how and whether, during his team’s nearly three dozen encounters with China’s team, they addressed Beijing’s use of forced labor and other human-rights issues in Xinjiang. The former secretary of state’s answer was unsurprising to anyone who’s listened to him in recent months — but nevertheless should be jarring: “We’re honest about the differences, and we certainly know what they are, and we’ve articulated them. But that’s not my lane here.”
The “differences” in this case concern Beijing’s campaign to destroy Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities under its jurisdiction — raising the question whether Kerry, as a U.S. government official working on an issue relevant to the Uyghur forced-labor issue, has a responsibility to advocate policies to bring an end to the crisis in Xinjiang.
His most recent statement and other remarks like it — such as when he told Bloomberg in September that “life is always full of tough choices . . . but first and foremost this planet must be protected” — would seem to contradict his pledges upon taking charge of the portfolio in January. Then, just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Senate that he stands behind the Trump administration’s decision to call Beijing’s atrocities in Xinjiang “genocide,” Kerry pledged that the U.S. stance on non-climate issues “will never be traded for anything that has to do with climate.”
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Amateur year.
This is the scumbag traitor who coldly acknowledged that the North Vietnamese were going to execute our allies in S Vietnam.
Leftists are mass murderers
John Kerry (who was in Vietnam) is himself an atrocity
You know, John, I’ll bet money the Chinese in Xinjiang raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned on the power, cut off limbs, blew up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Jenjhis Khan
If I ever hear about his jet crashing, I will laugh. (as long as he is not listed as a survivor). ESAD horseface.
His indifference to genocide is worthy of a JenJis Khan.
Why this stalagmite is still around is beyond me. The same can be said for Chauncey Biden. I think it’s to keep the demented old “moderate” Rat guard voting block in place until more young commies come into voting age to replace them.
Respectfully one wonders, Mister Kerry, do we surrender to defense issues in favor of climate issues?
Kerry has a genius for saying stupid things, going back to his testifying before Congress about the Vietnam War. He’s a disloyal, treasonous bag of maggot excrement.
“That’s Not My Lane”
Go play on the beltway F head.
I think the scientific term that describes Lurch’s role in government is “Dingleberry”
Since when is a Communist country not his lane?
He doesn’t care about the little people, he’s saving the planet........../s
Is Kerry more of a Zelig character? Everywhere for the photos but a narcissist and ne’er-do-well? I do not remember a thing that he was involved in that was worth much other than yes or present as a senator to those making decisions. He should at least gotten an article 15 for his antics at the Paris Peace talks ( I don’t remember if he got in trouble other than he quit the navy or was quietly forced out).He defended Nicaraguan oppression and other South American communists in the 70s and 80s. His tour as DoS leader got us the Iranian deal. Now he is on a world speaking to for climate and it’s likely he’s doing the pontificating without listening to others and making sure they are worshiping his voice and stupendous intellect.
Whar do ah gyit me a huntin’ license? What a turd he is. Kerry is perfect for the Brandon Administration.
They love humanity. It's people they have a problem with.
I will say that he did serve and that I give him chops for that. He did enter battle but How he left Nam well…debatable how he used a way to leave … but Cinderella did attend the ball.
Well. That just about says it all.
I think he just disqualified himself from his “Climate Czar” gig. I mean all these jack-wipes position “climate change” as some human caused crime against humanity and the planet.
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