No solvency China refuses flexible bi/multi-lateral climate cooperation now.
Friedman et al 7/19 (“China’s Xi Rebuffs Kerry’s Call for Faster Climate Action”, Lisa Friedman, Lisa Friedman is a reporter on the climate desk, focusing on climate and environmental policy in Washington. She has covered eight international climate talks and chased climate-related stories from the bottom of a Chinese coal mine to the top of snow-capped Himalaya Mountains, Chris Buckley is the chief correspondent for The New York Times in China, where he has lived for most of the past 30 years after growing up in Sydney, Australia. Before joining The Times in 2012, he was a correspondent in Beijing for Reuters, Keith Bradsher, Keith Bradsher is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. He previously served as the Shanghai bureau chief, Hong Kong bureau chief and Detroit bureau chief. Before that, he was a Washington correspondent covering the Federal Reserve and international trade, and a New York-based business reporter covering transportation and telecommunications, July 19th 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world/asia/xi-china-climate-kerry.html) HSLA: RP
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.