The US must address the damage that its House Speaker Nancy Pelosai caused with her recent visit to Taiwan before expecting any cooperation from China on climate-related issues, the country’s diplomats have warned.
“The US side should dispel the negative influence of Pelosi scuttling to Taiwan,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. “This is an indispensable condition of China-US climate change cooperation.”
The statement apparently came in response to an interview in which Washington’s special envoy on climate change, John Kerry, told the Financial Times that he hoped to resume talks with China before the UN’s COP27 climate summit in November. Kerry has claimed that China “punishes the world” by severing climate ties with the US, ending cooperation between the planet’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gasses.