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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I’m starting to not like rhis guy.
Lurch’s lane is the bridle path. Blucher!
Sgt. Schultz would be proud!
Regards,
Swiftboat Rear Admiral John F’ing Kerry is soooooo clever....
He was a traitor. Not about his questionable purple hearts and pulling strings to get out of theater.
He met with the enemy negotiators in Paris to encourage them to win and not to compromise with the US.
He should have been in a jail cell, not the US Senate etc.
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