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DerekJohnson
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DerekJohnson
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https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
BIDEN’S CIA PICK IS CHINA’S BFF: The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz notes that William J. Burns comes from a think tank that has close ties to the Chinese military, and including significant funding from a well-connected Chinese business tycoon. In any other age, such relationships would be disqualifying for the nation’s chief spook. But c’mon man, China is our friend now, right? Right?
Fuck all this. The Throbber is moving to the Polish* zone as soon as possible.
*sausage
And lose
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/kerry-isolate-cooperation-climate-change-china-other-confrontations?utm_source=Examiner Today_02/09/2021&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner Today&rid=111559
Kerry bets on setting aside confrontation with China to combat climate change
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry faces a daunting task as he seeks to prove the Biden administration can set aside the biggest confrontations with China to cooperate on combating climate change.
China has rejected Kerry’s contention that climate action be treated as a “critical standalone issue” that can be “compartmentalized” as the two countries feud over trade, intellectual property theft, market access, and human rights.
“China-U.S. cooperation in specific areas, unlike flowers that can bloom in a greenhouse despite winter chill, is closely linked with bilateral relations as a whole,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian recently said.
Skeptics of Kerry’s single-minded approach argue that climate change naturally intersects with other issues, such as trade. President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have repeatedly signaled that former President Donald Trump’s tariffs against China are likely to continue for now, an area of consternation for Beijing.
“The Chinese aren’t going to compartmentalize climate,” said George David Banks, who was an international energy adviser to Trump. “They’ll link it to issues like trade and what they consider to be their internal issues.”
The research group ClearView Energy Partners said in a note Monday that China could potentially “wield concessions on climate as a source of leverage in other negotiations,” [You betcha]an argument recently proffered by Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. [Go figure]
The leaders of both countries have already signaled climate change as a top priority. Biden says he wants the U.S. to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, meaning any carbon emitted would be balanced with measures that take pollution out of the atmosphere.
China’s Xi Jinping recently pledged that China would reach carbon neutrality by 2060.
Analysts attributed Xi’s surprising carbon neutrality pledge partly as an attempt to mollify Biden ahead of his election win. But China is also motivated to address climate change for its own reasons.
“The truth is neither the U.S. nor China can strong-arm the other on issues of high political importance,” said Li Shuo, senior climate policy officer for Greenpeace East Asia. “This transactional approach misses the drivers of China's climate action, which are primarily domestic.”
By reducing emissions, China can satisfy a population exposed to heavy air pollution. China is also eager to maintain dominance in manufacturing clean energy technologies and deploying renewables and electric vehicles, areas where Biden aims for the U.S. to close the gap.
“The posture is not so much to sit with your arms folded and wait for the other guy to set a good climate target,” said Paul Bodnar, a managing director at the environmental group RMI who was special assistant to former President Barack Obama and senior director for energy and climate change at the National Security Council. “That’s not the game people are playing anymore. Are you going to own the next generation of global energy markets, or are you not?”
But China’s commitments include plenty of holes, giving Biden and Kerry room to push for more.
In the short term, China has pledged to ensure its emissions peak “before” 2030 [I'll take the over]. But critics say it should be aiming to reduce emissions this decade, not just stop growing them, by reducing its consumption of coal.
China is home to more than half of the globe’s operating coal plants and is still building new ones.
Yup. I have family that work for AMZN. Total Stepford Wives situation going on in those giant balls downtown.
China, China, China, China....all they fucking talk about.
Orange Man, Bad. Senile Bald Man, Good.
China, Best!