On May 13 Politico reported remarks by President Biden’s “climate ambassador” John Kerry, in an interview, that trusting China on climate would be ‘stupid and malpractice’. This followed Kerry’s very unsuccessful visit to Shanghai in which he tried to wrangle some support in China for denying economic development to the developing nations on behalf of “the planet". Politico put it this way: “The news: Kerry positioned China as an adversary and global economic competitor that requires not only United States pressure but a coordinated international effort to ensure the world can keep temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.”
The paper also noted that Kerry said his talks in Shanghai last month “grew `very heated’ over the nation’s financing of overseas coal-fired power plants, which would wreck chances at meeting the 1.5-degree goal.” And it quoted Biden’s Malthusian warrior very clearly that he is organizing an anti-China coalition (of the trans-Atlantic willing, no doubt) for the COP26 meeting in November. “We agreed to work extremely closely together,” Kerry said, [and] “that we need to unify — particularly with respect to some of our conversations with China — with other countries where we are trying to move more rapidly to a mutuality of effort.” Some 25 nations are in “deep talks” with his staff, he alleged.
