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China appears to have fanned the flames of Pacific Islander anger over Australia’s failure to provide heaps of extra money embrace a more pro-active approach to helping Pacific Islanders prepare for global warming.
Beijing suggests Australia reflect on how it treats Pacific neighbours after climate change fallout
Beijing has suggested Australia reflect on how it engages its Pacific neighbours after Fiji’s Prime Minister accused Scott Morrison of being “insulting and condescending” at last week’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Tuvalu.
Key points:
- Pacific leaders were unhappy with Australia’s stance on climate change at last week’s forum
- China’s Foreign Ministry accused Australia of being condescending and insulting
- China insists its aid comes with no strings attached
After hours of negotiations, Pacific leaders failed to reach agreement on climate change action, and instead issued a watered-down communique after Australia refused to endorse statements calling for a ban on new coal mines and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The discussions on climate change reduced the Tongan Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva to tears while other Pacific leaders also expressed their disappointment.
Fiji’s PM Frank Bainimarama told The Guardian that when Mr Morrison was “[backed] into a corner by the leaders” at the forum, he started talking about how much money Australia had been giving to the Pacific — a move Mr Bainimarama described as “very insulting, very condescending.”
In response to Mr Bainimarama’s comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters “it wasn’t the first time that leaders of Pacific island countries resented Australia’s behaviour.”
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What can I say – Clearly China’s generous “no strings attached” approach to helping Pacific Islanders prepare for climate change carried the day.
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https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html
Aussies: 1%, China: 28%
Good one China……
Australia: 24 700 000 people
China: 1 386 000 000 people
China’s population is 56 times that of Australia.
And as such, China should be required to make 56 times the CO2 production cuts that Australia is required to make
I think AU and NZ need to be taken over by the Chinese out of the abundance of caution for climate change level 3. The U.S. needs to back away when the squealing starts.
The next round of land grabs by Putin and Xi with weak liberals in the White House will be more ambitious.
I suppose it’s a form of optimism that such utter, bold-face hypocrisy still outrages me.
Is there a Chinese word for chutzpah?
Not to worry inhabitants of coral atolls as you might be getting a boost underfoot soon-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sailors-discover-rock-carpet-floating-towards-great-barrier-reef/ar-AAGd1Sh
China emits almost 50 percent of the world’s CO2. Hey China, get some of this!
“Australia refused to endorse statements calling for a ban on new coal mines and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.”
Just how much GHGs are produced by mining coal ? It’s the burning, the part the Chinese are soo go at, that does the most production of GHGs.
This sounds like the Chinese were trying to get a stranglehold on the market.
Talk about the Chinese wok calling the Aussie billy black!