John Kerry arrives in China to try to revive environment talks between Beijing and Washington

July 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

US Presidential Special Envoy for Climate and former US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in China on Sunday for a three-day visit — the third by a senior White House official to the country in recent weeks. — to try to reactivate the talks with the authorities of the Asian giant on climate change.

China and the US are the two main polluting countries in the world. Between them they account for almost 40 percent of global emissions, but right now their cooperation, as in other areas, is paralyzed by geopolitical tensions.

Chinese official media such as the ‘Global Times’ accuse the US of carrying out an exercise in “condescension” towards China and of punishing the country by imposing, for example, restrictions on its solar panels, an issue that could be on the table throughout of Kerry’s three-day visit.

“What we want to do is find ways for China and the United States to move forward together and the rest of the world to follow in their footsteps,” Kerry explained before his visit during an appearance before US congressmen in which he acknowledged few expectations of drastic progress.

“If we can make some progress, I think we will be able to put a stop to this state of ‘nervous competition’ which in the end is going to end up causing an error on any part”, he explained in statements collected by the ‘Financial Times’.

Kerry is making this visit after those made by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in the latest in a series of diplomatic efforts to stabilize relations between the two countries, which have been deteriorated mainly by the status of Taiwan and the shooting down at the beginning of the year of an alleged Chinese spy balloon that was monitoring, according to the US, US soil.