Entanglement of Climate and Trade Overshadows US-China Relations: Experts

Smoke belches from a coal-fueled power station near Datong, in China's northern Shanxi Province on Nov. 19, 2015. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry went to China twice in the last six months but failed to get Beijing to cooperate on climate issues.

In their meeting on Sept. 1, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Kerry, “China-U.S. climate co-operation cannot be separated from the wider environment of China-U.S. relations.”