Chinese state media on Thursday was delighted to report the Biden administration’s “climate envoy,” John Kerry, met with Chinese representatives at the World Economic Forum (WEF) to discuss “room for cooperation on climate change amid bilateral tensions.”
China — the world’s worst polluter by far, with a seemingly bottomless appetite for burning dirty coal to fuel its industrial engine — lectured Kerry about “the U.S.’ inconsistency in global climate cooperation and tendency to politicize the issue,” according to the state-run Global Times.
The Chinese Communist paper’s account of the meeting in Davos, Switzerland, between Kerry and China’s “special climate envoy” Xie Zhenhua reads like a satire of opportunistic China using climate change as a club to bludgeon its Western competitors, while the Chinese litter the developing world with coal-fired…
