Visitor essay by Eric Worrall
A couple of days in the past, China’s CCP Backed World Occasions Jeered at President Biden’s COP26 powerlessness, predicting more “kneeling” in the future. However right this moment China is all smiles, after John Kerry has agreed to “share” US know-how knowhow, to battle the “existential disaster” of local weather change.
‘Existential disaster’: United States and China stun COP26 with joint local weather change pact
By Nick O’Malley and Bevan Shields
Up to date November 11, 2021 — 6.03am
Glasgow: China and the USA have made a shock joint assertion on the Glasgow local weather talks, declaring local weather change to be an existential disaster demanding co-operation between the superpowers.
Addressing a press convention on the COP26 summit, Chinese language local weather envoy Xie Zhenhua unveiled a joint declaration designed to “improve local weather motion within the 2020s” and mentioned the 2 nations had been decided to deal with international warming with “concrete and pragmatic” co-operation.
“Co-operation is the one alternative for each China and the USA,” Xie informed reporters by way of a translator.
“By working collectively, our two international locations can obtain many necessary issues which are useful not solely to our two international locations, however to the world as a complete. As two main powers on this planet, China and the US shoulders particular worldwide obligations and obligations.
“We have to assume huge and really feel accountable. We have to work … arduous to advertise world peace and improvement. We have to actively deal with local weather change by means of co-operation, bringing advantages to each our two peoples and peoples all over the world.”
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Xie mentioned Beijing and Washington would work collectively on emissions reductions, and share know-how and experience on clear power, decarbonisation and electrification to realize the targets of the Paris Settlement.
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In 2020, in response to The Guardian, the FBI identified Chinese technology theft as the biggest law enforcement threat to the USA.
Now, due to John Kerry, China now not must steal something, as a result of Kerry has supplied to offer the know-how away.
All Chinese language brokers have to do, in the event that they see a chunk of US exceptionalism they wish to seize, is get on the telephone to Kerry, and demand Kerry embrace no matter know-how or knowhow China desires within the new local weather know-how sharing settlement.
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