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Climate change for those countries that remain. 194 countries that remain in the original paris agreement. why is that? china is the biggest green house gas emitting country in the world and china is the largest country, the largest economy that remains in the agreement and because of that china has the biggest ability to effect the most amount of change. in other countries, smaller countries will be watching what china does here. if china sticks to its commitments and if they are the biggest green house gas emitter then other countries could say if china can do it so can we. there's a natural...

The same week that president trump announced the evisceration of climate policies here china announced another $360 billion for renewable energy which will generate 13 million jobs and india, too, under prime minister modi has said we're going to go from three gigawatts of solar power to 100 gigawatts by 2022. he's not doing that because he's a member of the sierra club. he's doing it because he believes it's good for his economy and the world. what he understand is modern economics, more than the cur admistration does here. >> i want to stay on the economic angle. as you just said, it would h...

Of. but i'm afraid he's totally wrong when it comes to the role of china. china's coal use has already peaked. it's been declining for the last three years. on the same week that president trump announced that he was going to abolish legislation, china announced that 150 coal plants that were planned would not go ahead. and they announced that there would be $360 billion invested in 3 years on renewable energy. >> but that's not fair to pick winners and losers mr. pruett said. >> it is not a matter of picking winners and losers but a reck crock in addition of economists that if we are pollutin...

We know that we are as a country making this transition to clean energy. we have actually today more jobs in wind, solar and clean tech than we do in the mining industry. if you think about it globally with paris and the treaty, the paris international climate treaty you had over 195 countries agreeing that directionally where we need to take this is lower emissions technologies, more renewables and more energy efficiency and that's where the rest of the world is going. that's a reason that china will invest $360 billion is because they see that as the future. we want the jobs in america, but ...

Will that will be successful, if it's handled poorly -- and you mentioned in your opener after the advertisements a potential trade war. so everyone involved with discussions and china is the biggest one. it's a trade deficit of around $360 billion, $370 billion, soon to be $400 billion. that doesn't mean much to anybody who's probably watching but it's half of the total u.s. trade deficit. >> but do you have a particular relationship with china that's very debut founded. schwarzman college, a kind of rhodes scholar program for people to go to china, surely you're worried. here is a president ...