Beijing Presents Itself as Climate Steward as China-Borne Pandemic Continues to Rage

Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivers remarks at the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 28, 2015. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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As European countries ponder the reimposition of lockdowns and other drastic measures to confront a second wave of COVID-19, and U.S. officials fear a similar outbreak on this side of the Atlantic, China—where the pandemic originated—has decided to change the subject to climate change.