China and US can work together to fight climate change 
US climate envoy John Kerry ended his four-day visit to China on Wednesday by meeting Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng, after a series of talks that produced commitments to continue working “intensively” on efforts to fight global warming.
China and US can work together to fight climate change 
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China and US can work together to fight climate change 

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Eurasia 21/07/2023 18:10

US climate envoy John Kerry ended his four-day visit to China on Wednesday by meeting Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng, after a series of talks that produced commitments to continue working “intensively” on efforts to fight global warming, South China Morning Post reported.

Kerry told a news conference after the meetings wrapped up that his engagements had “been long and detailed”, adding: “We had very frank conversations. But we came here to break new ground, which we think is important at this stage", South China Morning Post qouted.

“There are a lot of things that we very clearly agreed on after all this time. But there are also some issues that are going to have to be resolved that are going to take a little more time.”, said Kerry.

The two countries did not issue a joint declaration at the end of the trip “because we’re not finished finding the pathway with clarity on both sides that will allow us to achieve what we need to achieve”, Kerry said.

Han told Kerry that the issue was an “important aspect” of US-China cooperation that “bears on the sustainable development of humankind”, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

“China is willing to work with the United States to seek the greatest common ground on the basis of respecting each other’s core concerns and full communication … and make new contributions to addressing global challenges such as climate change,” Han said.
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Kerry also met Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi. The United States should adopt a “rational, pragmatic and positive” policy towards China to help the two countries work together to tackle climate change, Wang said after the meeting on Tuesday.

“China is willing to strengthen dialogue and communication with the United States, discuss mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly address climate change,” Wang said, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.

“China-US cooperation on climate change has huge potential, and at the same time, it cannot be separated from the understanding and support of the people of the two countries, and cannot be separated from the overall environment of China-US relations.

“[We] hope that the US will pursue a rational, pragmatic, and positive policy toward China, continue to adhere to the one-China principle, properly handle the Taiwan issue, and work with China to practice mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation”, SCMP cited Wang.

According to the Chinese statement, Kerry said the US always adhered to the one-China policy and is willing to strengthen cooperation with China based on mutual respect and jointly address global challenges such as climate change.

He stressed that the world expects both Washington and Beijing to cooperate on climate and told Wang that the two nations “cannot let bilateral differences stand in the way of making concrete progress on shared transnational challenges”, according to the US State Department.

“Our hope is that this can be the beginning of a new definition of cooperation and capacity to resolve differences between us,” Kerry said in his opening remarks, according to Agence France-Presse.

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