After the joint statement with the US on the climate, Xi Jinping: “Asia-Pacific does not fall into the Cold War confrontation”

BEIJING – Cautious optimism. Not even 24 hours after the joint declaration, which came as a surprise to the Cop26 in progress a Glasgow, China and the United States, this seems to be the prevailing sentiment this morning after the words of the American climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua. And despite the still vague promises, yesterday’s move is important from a geopolitical point of view to try to mend the – tense – relations between Beijing and Washington, and it proves once again (as it was for the Paris Accords) that the climate – given the good relations between Kerry and Xie – there remains the field where the two superpowers, if they want to, can …