China’s Communist government smacked-down Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s appeals to work together on climate change after he said he agreed that the Chinese government’s treatment of Uighur Muslims amounted to “genocide.”
In a new statement released on Twitter, China’s foreign ministry accused Blinken of “interfering in its domestic affairs and undermining its interests” after he backed predecessor Mike Pompeo’s declaration that it had launched “a systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs.”
“China is willing to work with the US on climate change. But such cooperation cannot stand unaffected by the overall China-US relations,” the statement read.
“It is impossible to ask for China’s support in global affairs while interfering in its domestic affairs and undermining its interests,” it added.
At his first press conference as Biden’s secretary of state on Wednesday, Blinken was asked by a Chinese journalist how the US would work with China with the genocide designation hanging over the relationship.
Blinken danced around the issue and said the US was able to compartmentalize different issues with the Communist nation, which he described as “the most important relationship we have,” and called on them to step up alongside America to confront climate change.
“It’s not a secret that the relationship between the United States and China is arguably the most important relationship that we have in the world going forward,” Blinken said, adding it had increasingly “adversarial aspects.”
He said that the countries could still work together on “mutual interests” like the environment, despite their enormous ideological differences.
On Wednesday, the Biden administration unveiled its $2 trillion Green New Deal-fuelled climate change plan, which will include ending the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Biden’s climate czar John Kerry brushed off concerns that hundreds of thousands of oil, gas, and coal jobs would be lost but also admitted that the US could do little to curtail the emissions of big polluters like China, which creates 30 percent of the world’s total emissions.
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Dec 4, 2020 Uyghur people ‘imprisoned, pillaged and destroyed’ for natural resources in Xinjiang
Ms Chanisheff said the concentration camps “have always been, or are attached to factories” which produce by-products and products which are “sold to the Western World”.
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Human rights are more important than curbing emissions of a non-toxic, life-giving greenhouse gas that has already reached saturation point as far as climate is concerned.
The CCP has got the USA exactly where they want them with the Biden administration falling for the decarbonizing the entire economy trap. The CCP will say many things over the coming years about fighting climate change, while they watch the USA destroy itself with energy restrictions. This is the last chance the USA has to stay number one in the world. China will come out of this period as the largest economy and the most repressive regime ever. It will not be good to watch this over the next 4 years. People have got to wake up to the Biden administration agenda that favors China not the USA.
instead of lecturing china on how to run their country maybe america could just take the oppressed and care for them the way they think they should be cared for. eh? lecturing other prople is easy. doing what you are telling them to do is something else.