All these real world issues are just so inconvenient
Kerry: China tensions hurting climate talks
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry tells Axios his work with China has stalled amid wider tensions between the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters.
Driving the news: “Regrettably, in the last year … what was not supposed to happen has happened, which is the climate issue has gotten mixed up into all the other tensions that exist between our countries,” Kerry said in an interview at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference.
“And so they’ve kind of pulled back a little bit, expressing the feeling that all we’re doing is bashing them and bashing them,” he said.
Why it matters: It’s impossible to meet the Paris Agreement’s goals for holding global warming in check without more aggressive steps by China, the world’s top current emitter.
It’s so terrible
China Has Disappointed John Kerry
China has disappointed John Kerry. Or has the U.S. disappointed Kerry? It’s not always clear as it should be.
Talking to Axios earlier this week, our climate Metternich expressed his disappointment that “what was not supposed to happen has happened, which is the climate issue has gotten mixed up into all the other tensions that exist between our countries.”
This is, doubtless, despite his best efforts. After all, back in late 2021, he sidestepped a question about whether he had brought up human-rights issues in the discussions he had held with Chinese leadership, issues including China’s used of forced labor in the manufacture of solar panels. The latter, of course, is a horror within a wider horror — the genocide of the Uyghurs. Kerry’s response was to say that it was not in his “lane.’ His job was to be “the climate guy, and stay focused on trying to move the climate agenda forward.”
China really doesn’t care about the climate crisis scam, except in that they can sell under-priced junk solar panels and such to 1st World nations, all while making pledges it isn’t keeping and will never keep, and offering assistance to 3rd world nations to supplant the influence of the US, European nations, and even Russia. John Kerry cares way more about the scam than China does, to the point he and the other Warmists will blow off China’s abysmal human rights record, it’s moves to take over Taiwan, it’s technology dangers, and more.
Rep. Michael Waltz has some choice words
Our country recently received a sobering wakeup call with China’s spy balloon hovering over our skies. The blatant violation of American sovereignty wasn’t just an off-hand stunt, it was emblematic of Communist China’s view that they can get away with any aggressive actions against America with little consequences.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cares first and foremost about displacing the United States from its perch among the world’s powers, and this is particularly true when it comes to powering the world. (snip)
Some on the left, however, say that we must appease China so that they will help us fight climate change. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has said that the CCP’s human rights horrors are “not my lane.”
Just last month, at a Heritage Foundation event about China and Ukraine, a protester took to the stage with a message consistent with Kerry’s actions: “China’s not our enemy, the climate crisis is.” (snip)
John Kerry is the Neville Chamberlain of climate change. China interprets this posture as weakness and is exploiting it.
The Cult is all that matters, even as Kerry flies all around the world on private fossil fueled jets.
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Well, duhhh!
Perhaps, just perhaps, Xi Jinping sees other things as more important than
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