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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A few days ago, China’s CCP Backed Global Times jeered at President Biden’s COP26 powerlessness, predicting more “kneeling” in the future. But today China is all smiles, after John Kerry has agreed to “share” US technology knowhow, to fight the “existential crisis” of climate change.
‘Existential crisis’: United States and China stun COP26 with joint climate change pact
By Nick O’Malley and Bevan Shields
Updated November 11, 2021 — 6.03am
Glasgow: China and the United States have made a shock joint statement at the Glasgow climate talks, declaring climate change to be an existential crisis demanding co-operation between the superpowers.
Addressing a press conference at the COP26 summit, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua unveiled a joint declaration designed to “enhance climate action in the 2020s” and said the two nations were determined to tackle global warming with “concrete and pragmatic” co-operation.
“Co-operation is the only choice for both China and the United States,” Xie told reporters via a translator.
“By working together, our two countries can achieve many important things that are beneficial not only to our two countries, but to the world as a whole. As two major powers in the world, China and the US shoulders special international responsibilities and obligations.
“We need to think big and feel responsible. We need to work … hard to promote world peace and development. We need to actively address climate change through co-operation, bringing benefits to both our two peoples and peoples around the world.”
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Xie said Beijing and Washington would work together on emissions reductions, and share technology and expertise on clean energy, decarbonisation and electrification to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/existential-crisis-united-states-and-china-stun-cop26-with-joint-climate-change-pact-20211111-p597wq.html
In 2020, according to The Guardian, the FBI identified Chinese technology theft as the biggest law enforcement threat to the USA.
Now, thanks to John Kerry, China no longer needs to steal anything, because Kerry has offered to give the technology away.
All Chinese agents need to do, if they see a piece of US exceptionalism they want to grab, is get on the phone to Kerry, and demand Kerry include whatever technology or knowhow China wants in the new climate technology sharing agreement.
bought politicians nice enough to stay bought
GO LURCH!!
Yes go, and don’t stop until you are far, far away.
If that includes nuclear that may be ok. My understanding is Clinton “gave” China whatever we had decades ago. In the meantime China has probably developed at least as much new technology as the US. Bill Gates has been working with China for years on nuclear, and other than that NuScale seems to be the only other American player. Wind and solar “development” is junk technology so that has no value for either Party.
A joint climate change pact between US snd China sounds nothing more than a political stunt !
Why else wouldn’t this agreement be shared across all nations ? What’s is so secret, so special ?
After all the requirements of climate change are pretty simple ; stop burning fossil fuels !
But both nations need to burn fossil fuels for a long time yet. Yes a political stunt for sure.
It *is* a political stunt. It was done to make it appear that things are getting done. It’s Happy Talk with Murderous Dictators.
This is all pointless as Uncle Sam wants yet another war with China and will nuke them into oblivian. All to make the world safe for democracy.
Paranoia can be treated, but first you have to admit that you have a problem.
Mainland reacts strongly to US lawmakers’ Taiwan visit; Provocative moves may speed up reunification process: expert
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238683.shtml
Boomerang anyone, just after a boomer hit a hill?
Protecting Taiwan from invasion is a provocative move.
Your hatred of all things US and British runs deep.
The Taiwan crisis exists only in Xi’s head. He’s the one turning this into a crisis with his bullying and bombast.
History may not treat him kindly if his ambitions get half the Chinese population killed.
The law of unintended consequences operates on all timescales. Chamberlain’s misapprehension of Germany’s pre-war intentions led to negative unintended consequences.
The Global Times is a ChiCom mouthpiece.
I can’t think of anyone in the U.S. that desires to go to war with Chicoms. I imagine there are some insane people who would like that, but I don’t think any of them are in a position to start anything. Joe Biden is insane, but he is also an appeaser at heart and he’s not going to start a war with the Chicoms.
What the U.S. was doing, at least before Biden got in office, is to build up defenses in the region and at home to the point that the Chicoms will realize that if they attack the U.S., or its allies, they are signing their own death warrants.
If the Chicoms don’t go attacking anyone, then they can continue to live their lives normally. It’s all up to them. They are the ones pushing the envelope, not the United States. If war comes, it will be because the Chicoms went too far.
Or in response to the West’s signaling of weakness. History is replete with examples, all involving severely negative consequences.
So China lies, then the US dies.
Kerry? “Horse face”? No, the other end.
That cuts out the middleman. Previously the US gave the technology to Israel and then Israel sold it to the Chinese.
Do you have any evidence of that? Or do you believe it just because it fits your ideology?
strange it took so long for one of the trolls on this thread to play the Antisemitism card..
But there currently isn’t important technology to steal in this area, so it’s an easy agreement to make.
However, if it is true that China is developing a properly commercial Thorium reactor then the USA might want to try stealing that, before China corners the market in modular nuclear reactors based on Thorium.
There is no reason to give the technology to China… They already hacked our computers and stole it years ago
The Chicoms have hundreds of thousands of potential Chinese spies living and working in the United States today. There were something like 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in U.S. schools before the pandemic hit. Many more work in every industry we have.
That’s not to convict every Chinese person living in the U.S., but some of them really are spies, and we should be aware of that.
This is war by other means.
Kelly is selling out the US strategic assets. He is a traitor. Totally blinded by his irrational belief in man-made climate whatever. He ought to be removed from a position of power asap. And court marshalled.
Name one strategic asset being sold out
Hey woke US media and useful idiots! See how much more pleasant and cooperative Xi can be with malleable Biden and Co rather than that problematic Trump fellow?
Oh…
Parts of China’s northeast region are facing the worst snowfall in 116 years as a result of unseasonably early winter storms, resulting in significant disruption to daily life.
Oh..
Chinese experts have put the early cold snap down to the La Nina climate phenomenon, which has led to forecasts of bitter winters this year across the northern hemisphere. Zhao Huiqiang, an official at the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), was quoted by state media as saying the country should expect frequent cold waves throughout the season.
Get with it, China. Global warming must be responsible for this.
Chaotic scenes as northeast China hit by record snowfall (msn.com)
Well, if La Nina caused the jet stream to dip down into northeast China, then the guy may be right. Of course, there’s no way I know of to connect the two. The dip is just a random event that takes place numerous times a year, La Nina, or no La Nina.
China-US Glasgow declaration ‘key step in the right direction’ on global climate actions, prevents decoupling worst scenario
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238712.shtml
What would decoupling look like?
Kerry is not new to international diplomacy :
Spuds probably do not work with China.
Kerry protested the Vietnam war one time out in front of the White House and made a big deal of throwing his military medals over the White House fence, along with others who were doing the same.
It turns out Kerry’s medals were safely stashed away at his home, and the medals he threw away were not his. That ought to tell you a lot about his lack of character.
Kerry is a danger to the United States, and has been all his life, with no end in sight.
I actually did throw my military medals away. The day Saigon fell.
My father rescued them from the trash, he told me, but I have never laid eyes on them again. I suppose my father has them somewhere.
And George W Bushes medals, of Dick Cheneys medals , Trumps medals
What happened to them
Clinton? Obama?
Do American voters realize they elected a government that is bent on surrendering all of what many generations of citizens have built with their own ingenuity and sweat? Do they realize it is all being done in the cause of imaginary threats and the failed socialist religion? How long before they stand up for their own wellbeing and for the principles of fairness and common sense? The train is heading for a cliff. There isn’t much time left to apply the brakes before everything is lost.
Probably not. All most Americans knew was that Orange Man bad, and they knew that because all of the major news organizations had been screaming it for years.
Exactly!
China is currently complaining that without US materials and manufacturing technology related to dissipating heat off the leading edges of hypersonic glide weapons to keep them from melting due to aerodynamic friction, it will be impossible for their country to achieve further reductions in CO2 emissions.
/sarc off
Until the appearance of John “Climate-Czar” Kerry, we had not seen another of the character of Neville Chamberlain.
You are not being fair to Neville Chamberlain. A naive fool, yes. But he was actually trying to do something good for his country. Unlike Traitor Kerry……
There has been a great deal of talk about needing U.S. leadership to benefit from the world market for low-carbon technologies. That’s all gone now. We develop new technologies and GIVE it to the Chinese who then TAKE our jobs and SELL the technology back to us. Brilliant.
Fascinating! The U.S. has unarmed military parades after victory in war. Socialist countries have armed military parades leading up to war.
A wee bit of COP26 fun:
https://www.cfact.org/2021/11/11/cop-26-planet-saved-now-what/
China is making nice sounds right now because they don’t want to increase the world pressure to abandon the upcoming olympics, a huge matter of face for them.
So they tell the useful idiots what they want to hear to ensure nothing derails the show
Well, yes, but they don’t really need a good reason to lie. Lying is a major part of their Standard Operating Procedure.
So the pact is, China will give the US a 5% discount for solar panels and wind turbines, orders over $500mil?
Next announcement:
Biden & Kerry to sign an agreement with China for America to hand over the nuclear codes for the sake of “tackling climate change”.
I know it’s not really the field of interest for this website, but gonna be honest since the climate change alarmist position seems intent on crippling the Western world economically while giving China a free pass, and the Biden administration seems worringly friendly with that ugly regime in Beijing, I have me a concern.