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world's two biggest sources of carbon emissions would work
together to help achieve success at this year's climate talks in
Glasgow in November, where nearly 200 countries will review
global efforts to tackle rising temperatures, the Ministry of
Ecology and Environment said.
Kerry, the U.S. president's special envoy on climate change,
held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, in the
northern city of Tianjin on Wednesday and Thursday. He also
spoke to senior diplomats Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi by video link.
Wang rejected U.S. efforts to separate climate issues from the
broader diplomatic conflicts between the two countries, while
Kerry insisted that the crisis facing the world should not be a
matter of ideology or political partisanship.
The Global Times, a tabloid run by the Communist
Party-controlled People's Daily stable of newspapers, said in an
editorial on Friday that the United States was trying to show "a
friendly face" on climate after pursuing a series of "wicked"
policies that threatened China's national security.
"The U.S. lowers the drawbridge when it needs it, and raises it
up when it doesn't need it any more," the newspaper said.
Kerry, speaking to journalists on Thursday, said he would pass
on China's concerns to Washington but his remit was limited to
climate.
But Kerry acknowledged the difficulties of reconciling global
climate concerns with U.S.-China disputes on issues like the far
western region of Xinjiang, where the United States says
authorities are committing rights abuses.
"On the one hand, we're saying to them - you have to do more to
help deal with the climate," he said. "And on the other hand,
their solar panels are being sanctioned which makes it harder
for them to sell them."
The United States has imposed sanctions on Chinese
companies it alleges are involved with forced labour in
Xinjiang. China dismisses the accusations as a lie.
(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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