“China, the United States and Russia are, respectively, the first, second and fourth largest carbon emitters. “The window for humanity to avoid unmanageable climate change is narrowing,” Litwak noted in his Wilson Center essay. Still, even a hint of this sort of planet-Earth-hostage-taking strategy by some senior Chinese officials is very troubling and needs to be called out. There are definitely other Chinese leaders who want to collaborate with Washington and understand that on climate, we sink or swim together. official told me that there is actually a lot of division in Beijing right now on the wisdom of this sort of wolf-warrior diplomatic strategy on climate, which is being pushed by Foreign Minister Wang Yi. We’ve never seen this tactic before from Beijing: We’ll clean our air, but only if you let us buzz Taiwan’s airspace and choke off the air of freedom in Hong Kong.Ī senior U.S. And even more important, The Washington Post reported last week that some in the Chinese leadership want to resist any substantial cooperation with America on climate issues until the United States dials down its pressure on China “over human rights, Hong Kong, Taiwan, trade and a range of other issues.”
Yet neither China’s president, Xi Jinping, nor Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is attending the Glasgow climate summit, which opened Sunday, in person with President Biden and many other world leaders.
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