John Kerry achieved nothing with his first big meeting with counterpart Xie Zhenhua in his first trip to China. Fortunately and oddly, Kerry gave up nothing but neither did China. They also made a fool of him, driving him around in a bus, unescorted by officials. He got to sit in the back.
It was another deal in which Kerry will pretend he won concessions with the CCP and they will continue to say they are doing nothing while demanding we cut emissions.
THE BAD DEAL
Krry went over to China to not talk about Taiwan, Hong Kong, Uyghurs, the South China Sea, North Korea, or intellectual property theft, none of those things. Kerry went to talk about the climate when China has made it clear Xi is not interested and will continue to build coal plants.
Reuters reported, “China now has 247 GW of coal power under development, enough to supply the whole of Germany.”
The prior deal has China agreeing to do something in 2030 and that’s what one might call a garbage deal. That fraudulent deal will continue.
KERRY SENDS A FOOL’S MESSAGE
The message Kerry sends by making climate the only important issue in his trip to China is that we are fools and this exaggerated climate nonsense is all we care about.
China loves the Paris Accord because it seriously harms Western economies. It also made Kerry Xi’s stooge as they used it for propaganda and to insult us.
“China welcomes the U.S. return to the Paris agreement and expects the U.S. side to uphold the agreement,” vice-premier Han Zheng told Mr. Kerry in a jab at Washington’s withdrawal from the pact under President Trump. Mr. Kerry also flattered Beijing by all but begging President Xi Jinping to join another global climate confab later this week, the Wall Street Journal noted, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board notes.
His lips must be sore from kissing all those feet.
At the same time, Kerry sounds like he’s blessing China’s green industrial-policy ambitions by including in the joint statement a pledge to pursue “policies, measures, and technologies to decarbonize industry and power.” For China, that means more industrial than green policy, the WSJ continues.
This is not a joke. This is what Kerry got out of his trip.
AFTER KERRY, CHINA’S EMISSIONS ROSE
In the years since the Trump Administration withdrew from that pact in 2017, American carbon emissions have kept falling and in 2019 hit their lowest level since 1992, and their lowest per capita since 1950, thanks in large part to the revolution in shale drilling for natural gas.
China saw its emissions rise in the same period, and its commitment under Paris to reduce emissions doesn’t even begin until 2030. And don’t count on anything happening then either.
THEY MADE A FOOL OF HIM
The elitist John Kerry is a nobody to the CCP. And they made that clear while he was in China. They took him around in a bus and he got to sit in the back. No officials greeted him.
Chinese put John Kerry at the back of the bus…
Tour bus for Kerry visit – no official vehicle for Climate Clown
Made him wait for officials to meet him pic.twitter.com/kuiAGcNNox
— Charles R. Smith🔹 (@softwarnet) April 16, 2021
They didn’t bother to have any officials to fawn over him.
The CCP hired a bus from a travel company for John Kerry, and on longer arranges for officials at the state councilor level to meet him. How humiliating. 拜登團隊的克里去中國被中共羞辱，只派了一輛酒店面包車接送，
也不再安排國務委員級別官員見他。 pic.twitter.com/Jhico98Ti3— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) April 16, 2021
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