Washington and Beijing alike must recognize this is a two-way street. The dynamic cannot be just one side acting as the moral arbiter—telling the other what to do and then penalizing it for not responding, writes globalsarang.
Sarang Shidore is director of studies and senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute, and a senior non-resident fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. He is also adjunct faculty at George Washington University, where he teaches a class on the geopolitics of climate change.
Restoring meaningful climate U.S.-China cooperation—as Secretary Antony Blinken rightly pledged during his recent visit to China—is among the Biden administration’s most consequential diplomatic goals. The future of our planet depends on the two countries getting it right. Kerry struck the right note prior to his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, stating that the world demands “Washington and Beijing alike must recognize this is a two-way street.
It is true that our two nations must overcome their deep mutual distrust quickly to forge climate cooperation if we’re to have any hope of reducing global emissions fast enough to blunt the worst climate impacts, and begin helping countries adapt to warming that’s already baked in.
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