‘China is doing none of this’: Republican senator pours cold water on Biden’s climate cooperation effort with the CCP

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri criticized the Biden administration for seeking a climate deal with the People’s Republic of China on Thursday, saying China did not live up to its side of previous agreements.

The State Department Announced an effort to work with China to combat climate change on a Tuesday release, even as China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate of two per week; China’s climate envoy saying It was “unrealistic” to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in September. “They haven’t fulfilled any kind of agreement before, even if you accept the premise that somehow humans have a huge role in controlling the climate, even if you accept that premise, China has done nothing,” Schmitt said. to Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. . (RELATED: ‘The Biggest Gamble’: China Expert Says Biden’s Soft Stance Has Been Tried Before and Only Made the Country More Hostile toward the U.S.)

“They are building all these coal-fired plants. They have emissions that are double those of the United States, but we are doing a couple of things. One is that we are declaring war on national energy production, we are not energy independent. We should be,” Schmitt continued. “We should export it to our friends and allies around the world, that provides a lot of strength and independence. But we are becoming too dependent on China, with supply chains that include critical minerals and other materials needed to power electric vehicles that Americans don’t want to buy.”

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“China is not doing anything you want it to do. We hope they do, but don’t they? The people who suffer are Americans. We pay higher prices for everything. We are too reliant on China, there is no question that they are simply not interested in doing any of these things and we are in a real-world competition,” Schmitt said when Kudlow cited a Daily Caller News Foundation article about the deal.

“When they write the history books, Larry of the 21st century, who prevails, China or the United States and is a rival like we never had before. We had a military rival with the Soviet Union. They were a nuclear power. They were not an economic rival. We have all that with China. “They come in and play Joe Biden for a fool, acting like they are going to do something about the climate.”

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

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