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How Net Zero by 2050 Dovetails With Beijing’s ‘Hundred-Year Marathon’

How Net Zero by 2050 Dovetails With Beijing’s ‘Hundred-Year Marathon’
Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel factory in Hubei Province, China, on Nov. 19, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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“What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the dogs?” demands the Chinese Communist Party’s consul in Rio about Canada and the Trudeau dynasty. Or rather, over a picture of Little Potato (the nickname Trudeau was given during his 2016 trip to China): “Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada, and have turned Canada into a running dog of the US. Spendthrift!!!”

John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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