Barrasso: China's goal is domination, not cooperation. It's playing Biden and America for fools. China pretends it’s a developing country, steals technology, uses forced labor and manipulates markets to its advantage. It's a grand deception. John Barrasso China has a well-deserved reputation for deceit. That’s what makes a recent statement from China’s Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng so remarkable: It is honest. He said it’s “not realistic” to expect China to make a new pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
There’s every reason to believe him, but the Biden administration is ignoring reality. President Joe Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, has embarked on a quixotic diplomatic quest to get China to cooperate with the United States and do something meaningful to combat climate change.