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China-Japan-Koreas
China Throws An Inside Heater
2021-09-04
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN CHINA, CLIMATE
Thank you for adding the above, Abu Uluque. It enabled me to find the article after you forgot to paste the URL into the Source box and also did not put the name of the website in square brackets at the top of the text. But doing the other things would have been easier for both of us.
[Powerline]There is little doubt that China was already giddy that they get to deal with U.S. "climate envoy" John Kerry, but having watched Biden’s weakness in Afghanistan, they aren’t even being coy about it any more. They are openly telling Kerry that the U.S. won’t get any Chinese cooperation on climate change unless the U.S. backs off pressuring China on other issues, such as trade, human rights, etc. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday:

China Warns Kerry Climate Cooperation Depends on Overall Ties

HONG KONG—Senior Chinese officials told U.S. climate envoy John Kerry that continued U.S. hostility on a range of issues could jeopardize cooperation on fighting climate change, though Mr. Kerry said that working-level talks were productive in the run-up to a November climate summit.

Mr. Kerry, wrapping up a two-day visit to the northern port city of Tianjin, was warned repeatedly by his hosts that climate cooperation couldn’t be kept separate from worsening geopolitical ties between the two countries.

On Thursday, Yang Jiechi, leader Xi Jinping’s top foreign-policy aide, told Mr. Kerry in a video call that the U.S. had interfered in China’s internal affairs and harmed its interests, causing difficulties in the bilateral relationship.

A day earlier, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, while describing climate-change cooperation as an oasis in the desert, said that "cooperation on climate change cannot be divorced from the overall situation of China-U.S. relations."

Given how single-minded Democrats are on climate change, expect them to cave to China. And since China’s climate pledges always involve action many years in the future, they don’t actually have to do anything for the duration of the Harris-Biden administration.

Another sign that the ChiComms are fast learners: back in the Cold War, it was the U.S. that insisted on "linkage" in arms talks with the Soviet Union. Now it’s China that wants linkage, and the U.S. that is resisting it.
Whatcha gonna do about, Joe? How does a greenie-weenie president justify trade with a hostile totalitarian communist dictatorship that also happens to be the world's biggest emitter of hydrocarbon?
Posted by:Abu Uluque

#4  Spoken like a gentleman and a Rantburger, dear Abu Uluque. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-09-04 12:40  

#3  I am duly chastised, tw. I know better but I forgot. Probably focused too much on including the link to the WSJ (even though it's behind a paywall), or maybe it was the blockquote tags for the part that Hayward copied from the WSJ, or the fancy span tags for italics...or maybe I'm just getting old. I'll try to do better next time.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-04 12:05  

#2  This is just one of the reasons China wanted Trump out, he held their feet to the fire and made them 'lose face' in both their local populace and the world.

And they would do anything to get him out.

Anything.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-09-04 09:21  

#1  Can't anyone here play this game?
Posted by: SteveS   2021-09-04 00:26  

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