China Rebuffs John Kerry–Xi Tells Him, It’s Business As Usual For China
By Paul Homewood
Chinese leaders rebuffed attempts by John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, to persuade them to commit to tougher climate action during three days of talks in Beijing, a response that suggested that tensions between the countries are making it difficult to work together on a crisis that threatens the planet.
Mr. Kerry emerged late Wednesday from the lengthy negotiations in Beijing with no new agreements. In fact, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, insisted in a speech that China would pursue its goals to phase out carbon dioxide pollution at its own pace and in its own way.
Still, Mr. Kerry appeared buoyed that the world’s two biggest polluters had restarted discussions, which had been frozen for a year because of strained relations over Taiwan, trade and other issues. He insisted he was not disappointed in the outcome, noting that just talking marked progress.
“We had very frank conversations but we came here to break new ground,” Mr. Kerry said, adding, “It is clear that we are going to need a little more work.”
It is not hyperbole to say that the extent of global warming depends on decisions made by China and the United States. China is now responsible for almost a third of global emissions, more than all other developed nations combined. To avoid the worst consequences of a warming world, it is critical that the United States, the world’s largest emitter throughout history, work with China to slash carbon pollution, experts say.
Mr. Kerry had hoped to persuade China to start reducing its carbon emissions on a faster timeline and to quickly phase out its heavy use of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. While the United States generates 14 percent of global carbon emissions, China is responsible for 31 percent and its pollution is increasing every year. China has said it would hit peak emissions before 2030 and stop adding carbon to the atmosphere by 2060.
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Mr. Xi, who did not meet with Mr. Kerry during the envoy’s visit this week, said that China will follow its own timetable regarding emissions reductions. “The pathway and means for reaching this goal, and the tempo and intensity, should be and must be determined by ourselves, and never under the sway of others,” he said in a speech Wednesday according to the official People’s Daily.
The discussions with Chinese leaders around the country’s coal expansion were among the most challenging, Mr. Kerry said. China has built a number of new coal-fired plants in the past two years, locking the country into its continued use. Mr. Kerry tried unsuccessfully to prod China to curtail its use of coal and implement a plan to cut methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that leaks from oil and gas wells and coal mines.
In short, China has told John Kerry to get lost. They intend to carry on as before, putting economic growth above all else. The fact that Kerry did not even get to talk to President Xi is telling in itself, as it is Xi who will make the decisions, not the Chinese officials he did see.
Meanwhile, the dreadfully inadequate US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, shows us all who is really in charge here!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Well done Mr Xi, I would also to tell Kerry to get lost or a rather more Anglo Saxon version.
I always have problems considering how lumps of carbon get in the atmosphere in the first place……
🙂 Like the inappropriate usage of “green”, it is because the ignorati promoting this crap if they have education are arts graduates. The same applies to the equally asinine nonsense they spout about climate change.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
I wrote to the Daily Mail last week complaining about an article by their Environment Editor on heat pumps which he claims fight climate change. He also quotes a spokesman who refers to carbon instead of carbon dioxide. I have not had a reply yet.
How did that idiot Kerry get to Beijing? Rhetorical question. By sailing ship, I have no doubt.
He swam.🤔
ASPB river boat.
‘Apocalypse
Now” Sometime.When will these numpties get it through their thick heads—carbon dioxide is NOT pollution!
When seeing the hysterics of the likes of XR and the equally ignorant and asinine promoters of just stop oil about the UK and then see them bizarrely make excuses and defend China when asked, shows this whole charade costing billions and wrecking our economy is nothing at all to do with anything except rabid marxism and its long held desire to destroy Western economies. They should be called out for what they are, traitors and 5th columnists.
Exactly right .
The whole Global Warming fraud is about destroying capitalism so that the Marxist / Socialists can take over .https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/
The constant lies from the media and politicians are all to promote the CCP and bankrupt Western economies .
Didn’t Maurice Strong retire to China. I wonder which country Schwab follows…
It will be reported by the American msm and the Democrats as, ‘John Kerry has convinced the China government to reduce CO2 emissions’, like they always do.
“Just talking is progress.” Right on, that’s what “progressive” means.
I have a mental picture of John Kerry, having descended the steps of his returning aircraft, waving a piece of paper and proclaiming “I believe it is CO2 reduction for our time”.
Didn’t work out too well for Neville Chamberlain; here’s hoping it doesn’t work out for Kerry either.
If Kerry was a Chinese national and was doing to China what he is doing to the USA and the West Xi would have had him disappeared.
“a response that suggested that tensions between the countries are making it difficult to work together on a crisis that threatens the planet.”
Wrong, it just suggests that Xi is not as gullible, illiterate and stupid as his American counterparts.
We’ve known that. It shows that Xi is no longer willing to play silly American games.
And that is big.
Perhaps the Chinese know the “scientific consensus” is false but a wonderful opportunity to profit and steal a march on The West – don’t interrupt your enemy while it is making a mistake.
They may have worked out this; https://www.dropbox.com/s/3aavmbj18cc5n21/RvC_scan.pdf?dl=0
“Perhaps the Chinese know the “scientific consensus” is false”
No “perhaps” about it.
Wrong, it just suggests that Xi is not as gullible, illiterate and stupid as his American counterparts.
This applies equally to our home grown idiots too, quite prepared to destroy our home industries to reduce our miniscule output?
“…difficult to work together on a crisis that threatens the planet.”
If it threatens the planet, it threatens China. I wonder why Xi doesn’t seem too worried….
If you go back to the beginnings of the IPCC it is almost certain that China backed the main movers. Remember Maurice Strong? Bearing that in mind, it is little wonder that China is virtually ignoring all the crisis hysteria.
There can be no doubt, Kerry is, if anything, highly rebuffable!
OK, I admit it, I am confused. Just who DOES Yellen work for as I assumed it was the World Empire of Fascism but here she is giving obeisance to the CCP?
“Mr. Xi, who did not meet with Mr. Kerry during the envoy’s visit this week, said that China will follow its own timetable regarding emissions reductions. “The pathway and means for reaching this goal, and the tempo and intensity, should be and must be determined by ourselves, and never under the sway of others,” he said in a speech Wednesday according to the official People’s Daily.”
China is such a major contributor to GHG emissions, it now has its own representative concentration pathway – RXiP8.5!
Here in Scotland we totally support global warming and can’t wait for a few days in a row above 15 degrees when the horizontal rain becomes less lethal.
It’s more than just ironic that Joe Biden took quick action to almost deplete the US strategic oil reserves after pledging in Glasgow that the US would reduce its emissions. Because there was no outrage from John Kerry (or the others trying to be “green”).
“It is not hyperbole to say that the extent of global warming depends on decisions made by China and the United States.”
Correct, it is not hyperbole, it is total, utter, absolute bollocks.
A doctor of geology at Durham University said, a few years ago, that : “To blame an apparent change in climate on one factor is not only naive, but very bad science” Another meaning for naive is green. Sounds about right to me
However, we can thank Kerry for emitting a lot of CO2 in his travel for this visit. That will help keep people from starvation.