{"id":1971890,"date":"2023-07-13T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-czar-john-kerry-takes-xi-jinping-at-his-word-thats-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:18:31","slug":"climate-czar-john-kerry-takes-xi-jinping-at-his-word-thats-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-czar-john-kerry-takes-xi-jinping-at-his-word-thats-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Czar Kerry&#8217;s Trust in Xi Jinping: The Issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-czar-john-kerry-takes-xi-jinping-at-his-word-thats-the-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><h2>The dictator\u2019s actions tell us all we need to know about his concern for the environment.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      John Kerry (L) and China&#8217;s president Xi Jinping (R) (Getty Images)<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n    At the height of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, one participant offered a strong piece of advice to the then-leader of the free world. &#8220;Donald Trump, don&#8217;t trust China,&#8221; the protester <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OiVQlakoUig?t=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;China is asshole.&#8221;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Those are words President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate czar, John Kerry, would do well to ponder as he prepares to board his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-czar-john-kerry-takes-xi-jinping-at-his-word-thats-the-problem\/\" title=\"Climate Czar Kerry's Trust in Xi Jinping: The Issue.\">fossil-fuel emitting jet<\/a> to Beijing this weekend to resume in-person climate negotiations with his communist counterpart, Xie Zhenhua. If the trip yields commitments from China to &#8220;accelerate its phase-out of coal,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/06\/climate\/john-kerry-china-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerry said<\/a>, it will be a success.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Low bar. China has long pledged to do as much, only to ramp up its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-a-liberal-think-tank-did-chinas-bidding-on-climate-change\/\" title=\"How a Liberal Think Tank Did China\u2019s Bidding on Climate Change\">coal consumption<\/a> and carbon emissions. In 2014, one year after CCP head Xi Jinping became president, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/jun\/30\/china-carbon-emissions-2030-premier-li-keqiang-un-paris-climate-change-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled a plan<\/a>\u2014to much fanfare from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/21\/business\/energy-environment\/china-to-place-limit-on-coal-use-in-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American press<\/a>\u2014to cap its annual coal consumption at 4.2 billion tons by 2020. China&#8217;s commitment to lower emissions, former president Barack Obama said at the time, &#8220;shows what&#8217;s possible when we work together on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-hostile-regimes-testing-joe-biden-during-his-first-months-in-office\/\" title=\"4 Hostile Regimes Testing Joe Biden During His First Months In Office\">urgent global challenge<\/a>.&#8221; Today, the Chinese have blown past that number and burn more coal than the rest of the world combined.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Kerry has nonetheless argued that, in the case of the Chinese, words alone are proof of climate &#8220;progress.&#8221; He has lauded the genocidal dictator for using the term &#8220;climate crisis&#8221; and for pledging to cut emissions as part of an &#8220;ecological strategy.&#8221;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    &#8220;I\u2019d rather have those words than not,&#8221; Kerry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?511689-1\/house-hearing-global-response-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told lawmakers in 2021<\/a>.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    A wise man once said to &#8220;trust but verify.&#8221; A year later, in 2022, Xi approved the equivalent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/27\/energy\/china-new-coal-plants-climate-report-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">coal power plants<\/a> per week<\/a>.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    That unfortunately is not the way the Biden administration conducts diplomacy. Kerry in March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/03\/07\/john-kerry-us-china-stalled-talks-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed regret<\/a> that &#8220;other tensions&#8221; between China and the United States\u2014you know, spy balloons, concentration camps, and the hacking of America\u2019s commerce secretary\u2014had &#8220;gotten mixed up&#8221; with climate cooperation.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    It is revealing that Kerry and his allies in the Biden administration take the measure of a man by the extent to which he has adopted their own woke rhetoric. We can be sure that Xi understands perfectly who will come out ahead.\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the dictator&#8217;s environmental concern. During the 2019 Hong Kong protests, a participant warned the former leader of the free world, Donald Trump, about trusting him. This advice highlights the questionable actions of the dictator and their disregard for the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1971891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}