What U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China means for global climate action
incident, delaying Blinken’s visit to Beijing. Now, at last, it seems the standoff could start to ease.
John Kerry, the top U.S. climate negotiator, has been invited to China . “We have to create a partnership here,” Kerry told. Some of the issues to be worked out have global consequences, like resolving whether China should pay into a climate disaster fund for developing nations, or whether it can continue to identify as a developing nation itself.
Still, even climate hawks might have reason for not wanting relations with China to become too friendly, at least from an economic standpoint. The U.S may have theover China, but when it comes to green industry China holds most of the cards. China leads the world in battery production, and in solar panels.
Obviously, that situation puts the U.S. at a disadvantage. An over-reliance on China for green energy infrastructure could cripple the U.S. if relations spiral, just as European nations were sent scrambling when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put European gas supplies in jeopardy. It also gives ammunition to thewho claim that any moves away from fossil fuels means sacrificing America’s strategic interests.
President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is a first step toward building up the country’s own green energy production base, with incentives designed to encourage firms to build solar panels and EVs on U.S. soil. But building that manufacturing capacity will take years that the climate doesn’t have, which means we’ll have to rely on a lot of Chinese hardware for the time being. And China has such a leg up on the U.S. in green manufacturing that firms in the U.S.
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