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“HOW can we achieve our global climate goals without having Beijing working with us? We can’t it’s that simple! There’s no way any one country can solve this crisis and particularly if we’re large emitting nations.”
This was the answer of US climate envoy John Kerry being interviewed on MSNBC.
He went on to say that China and the US had agreed to separate climate, which affects us all, from the many other bilateral Sino-US issues.
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