[Epoch Times, August 26, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Lin Yan comprehensive report) It is reported that the US President’s special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, will visit China again in September, or for Biden and Xi Jinping’s meeting in October The meeting during the G20 summit provided a foreshadowing.
Duowei.com, which is headquartered in Beijing and faces overseas, said in an article on Tuesday (“He Jinli first entered China’s backyard, why only choose Singapore and Vietnam”) that US President Biden is considering borrowing from the Group of Twenty (G20). The summit facilitated meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
At the end of October, the Group of 20 (G20) will hold a summit in Italy.
The news of Kerry’s visit to China was first reported by Reuters. The report quoted two sources as saying that Kerry is expected to visit China in September this year to continue to promote closer cooperation between the two world powers on climate change issues.
This will be the second visit to China by the former Secretary of State. He is responsible for persuading the global community to believe in the threat of climate change and urging countries to speed up their efforts to curb carbon emissions.
At the same time, the time of his visit to China was also a few weeks before the United Nations Global Climate Summit in October. Kerry has always hoped that the October summit will help other countries support the “decade of action” to tackle climate change.
The US State Department did not confirm this news.
After taking office as the special envoy for climate change, Kerry visited Shanghai on April 15 to create an atmosphere of cooperation for President Biden to host the climate summit video conference a week later. After Kerry’s visit to China, the two countries rarely issued a joint statement expressing their commitment to mutual cooperation to resolve the climate crisis.
At the time, US media reported that US officials and analysts said that they should not expect the two countries to make rapid breakthroughs in their cooperative efforts to tackle climate change.
But as the White House wished, after Kerry’s visit to China, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the White House Climate Summit on April 22 via video, but he did not make any new specific commitments to reduce carbon emissions.
As the world’s number one carbon emitter, China previously claimed that it will strive to achieve no growth in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and achieve “zero emissions” of carbon dioxide by various neutralization effects by 2060. This goal is more than 100% in the world. Many countries are ten years behind.
The US government-funded media “Voice of America” reported on Tuesday that although Kerry visited China again, the prospects for cooperation between the two countries are still not promising.
According to the report, observers said that when US-China relations continue to be at an impasse, the prospects for Kerry to visit China again to persuade Beijing to make new concrete emission reduction commitments are not optimistic.
On August 16, the day after the Afghan Taliban occupied the capital of Kabul, US Secretary of State Blincol spoke with foreign ministers of many countries, including China, seeking a joint response to the rapidly changing security situation.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi once again put forward the request that the U.S. should lower its body so that the CCP will cooperate and support it.
The Biden administration regards combating climate change as one of its main domestic and foreign policies. US officials said that cooperating with Beijing on climate issues will not weaken US efforts to hold China accountable for other issues, including economic and human rights violations.
White House National Security Adviser Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan once said that the United States does not think China’s cooperation on climate change is helping. He said: “We believe that taking action on climate change is the basic responsibility of every major country in the world.”
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