Former U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.
As the Biden administration celebrated the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement last Friday (19), Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry argued that he could work with the Chinese Communist Party on climate change, but former U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said Kerry’s plan was too unwise.
“The Chinese Communist Party is playing them.” Brouillette told the Washington Examiner in an interview. brouillette, who left in January, has been watching the Biden Administration closely.
The Biden administration has said it wants to continue to stick to former President Trump‘s hard line against the Chinese Communist Party on issues such as trade, intellectual property theft and market access. But Kerry wants to treat the climate issue as a “stand-alone issue” to play what he calls the Chinese Communist Party’s important role in helping the world meet its emissions reduction goals.
Bluiett is not convinced by the Communist Party’s pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve that goal, critics say, the CCP should reduce its consumption of coal to reduce carbon emissions over a decade, not just settle for no more increases in emissions.
“They will endorse some 2060 targets with no intention of reaching any of them.” Bruyette said if making some chicken-and-egg promises about 2060 would give the CPC relief on trade, they would do it. “The Chinese Communist Party is quite a sophisticated player,” they said, seeing through Kerry’s rhetoric.
In fact, China is the worst polluter and greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, currently producing more than three times as much coal power capacity as the entire planet combined, and people in Texas are suffering an energy disaster from the wind and solar power that environmentalists are obsessed with.
Some self-proclaimed environmental activists excuse China’s greenhouse gases, rampant pollution and complete refusal to lower its industrial targets as Western countries have done. Many of them listen only to Beijing‘s unrealistic promises of achieving carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality targets by 2060, without ever looking at what it is actually doing.
Unlike in the West, the CCP does not have to worry about any homegrown activists exposing its environmental crimes. Ou Hong Yi, an 18-year-old girl from Guilin, Guangxi, a prominent youth climate activist in China, staged a walkout against climate in late May 2019, calling on China to take immediate and stronger action against climate change. As a result, Ou Hongyi was ignored, ridiculed, ostracized, and subjected to harassment and intimidation from school officials and police, and her WeChat account was blocked. Authorities have said that Ou will not be able to return to school as long as she remains engaged in climate activism.
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