China asks for help from developing countries, without making progress on commitments

Xi Jinping, the secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party| Photograph:

The dictator of China, Xi Jinping, sent on Monday a written statement to the COP26 climate summit, in which he defends more help to developing countries to face the environmental crisis, without advancing any new concrete commitments from his government.

“Developed countries should not only make more efforts on their own, but also support developing countries,” said the president, who has not left China since early 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Xi, who was initially supposed to speak by videoconference, urged rulers in his statement to set “really achievable” goals and “do what you can according to your national conditions.”

The Chinese Communist Party leader expressed his confidence in “multilateralism” as the “right recipe” to face major global challenges such as climate change. “The negative impacts of climate change have become increasingly evident, implying that global action has become more urgent,” Xi said.

The biggest “challenge of our time,” he argued, is to promote economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic while responding to the environmental emergency.

The dictator said he was committed to promoting “an economic system based on green, circular and low-carbon development”, thus halting “the irrational development of energy-intensive, high-emissions projects”.


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