{"id":27753,"date":"2021-09-02T06:38:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27753"},"modified":"2021-09-02T06:38:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:38:58","slug":"china-warns-us-climate-cooperation-at-risk-on-political-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/09\/02\/china-warns-us-climate-cooperation-at-risk-on-political-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"China warns US climate cooperation at risk on political tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"leadtext\"><strong>Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi has warned the United States that political tensions between Beijing and Washington could undermine efforts by the world&#8217;s top two sources of greenhouse gas to cooperate in the fight against climate change<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>China&#8217;s State Councillor and Foreign Minister told US climate envoy John Kerry via video link on Wednesday that the two sides&#8217; joint efforts to combat global warming were an &#8220;oasis&#8221;, according to a foreign ministry statement published late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But surrounding the oasis is a desert, and the oasis could be desertified very soon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;China-US climate cooperation cannot be separated from the wider environment of China-US relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have shown our sincerity,&#8221; Wang was quoted by state broadcaster CCTV as saying. &#8220;Everyone who met with you will have to spend two weeks in quarantine, but we&#8217;re willing to pay that price, to discuss cooperation with the US on affairs of mutual concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry told Wang that Washington remained committed to working with other nations to tackle the climate crisis, and encouraged China to do more to reduce emissions during the meeting, a State Department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi has warned the United States that political tensions between Beijing and Washington could undermine efforts by the world&rsquo;s top two sources of greenhouse gas to cooperate in the fight against climate change China&rsquo;s State Councillor and Foreign Minister told US climate envoy John Kerry via video link on Wednesday that the two sides&rsquo; joint efforts to combat global warming were an &ldquo;oasis&rdquo;, according to a foreign ministry statement published late on Wednesday. &ldquo;But surrounding the oasis is a desert, and the oasis could be desertified<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27755,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions\/27755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}