Former Trump administration energy experts say the Chinese Communist Party‘s promises on climate issues are nothing more than a delaying tactic and will not be honored. John Kerry, the Biden administration’s climate envoy who agreed with Beijing, is pictured at a White House news conference on Jan. 27, 2021. John Kerry at a White House news conference.
On Sunday (Feb. 21), Dan Brouillette, former energy secretary in the Trump Administration, said he would not be able to meet the agreement. Brouillette (Dan Brouillette) said that Biden’s special envoy for climate policy, John Kerry, had been appointed to the White House. John Kerry was “misled” by Beijing authorities into thinking he could put aside his biggest confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party in order to work together on climate change. That would be a complete reversal of the Trump administration’s policy toward China in that area, and could be expected to go nowhere.
In a wide-ranging interview, Brouillette told the Washington Examiner that the Chinese regime does not intend to honor its supposed cooperation with the Biden Administration, but is essentially “playing them.
Previously, the Biden administration has said it wants to continue former President Donald Trump’s hard-line approach to the Chinese Communist Party on issues such as trade, intellectual property theft and market access. Trump’s tough stance on the Chinese Communist Party.
However, Biden’s envoy, John Kerry, celebrated Friday (Feb. 19) the return of the United States to the Paris Agreement, arguing that climate change can be a “separate” area of negotiation and that China is in an important position to enable the world to meet its emissions reduction targets.
China is the world’s largest emitter, while the United States is the world’s largest economy, with the two countries together accounting for 45 percent of global emissions.
Kerry compared this current U.S.-China cooperation on climate issues to that of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Kerry compared this current U.S.-China cooperation on climate issues to that of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Kerry compared the current U.S.-China cooperation on climate issues to the negotiations on nuclear weapons between former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
But Brouillette does not trust Beijing’s commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
Critics say that if they really want to go down that path and keep their promises, the Communist Party should commit to reducing emissions over the decade, not just stopping the growth of emissions by reducing coal consumption.
Brouillette pointed out that the Beijing authorities are simply using empty promises to stall for Time and take the opportunity to break the trade embargo, and that Kerry has illusions about the Beijing regime.
“They [the Chinese Communist Party] will agree to certain 2060 targets, yet have no intention of achieving any of them,” he said.
“If they (the CCP) make a 2060 mischievous promise that they can get redress from trade, they will do it.”
“The CCP are very old-fashioned players and can see that through the comments (after Kerry believed them).”
Brouillette also criticized Biden’s executive action on energy, namely Biden’s suspension of oil and gas leases on U.S. public lands and waters. He noted that the lost production (of energy products) will be made up elsewhere, meaning global emissions won’t drop much.
“If we stop production in the U.S., you will slow down the transition from China and India (from coal) to natural gas. Because the reduction of fossil energy products in the U.S. means demand will be supplemented by products outside the U.S.,” Brouillette said.
“As a result, we won’t be able to achieve the carbon reduction goals we think we’re going to achieve.”
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