Nothing better summarises Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attitude to the West’s obsession with tackling climate change than the old Chinese saying, “Hide a knife behind a smile.”
As world leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Western leaders were desperately trying to reach a deal on cutting carbon emissions, which United Nations climate experts claim is a major cause of climate change.
There was no shortage of dire predictions in the run-up to the summit, with John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, warning that this is the world’s “last best chance” to stop a climate catastrophe and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talking in apocalyptic terms about the world’s failure to tackle the issue placing modern civilisation at risk.
