The Kigali Amendment is a reminder that, when it comes to climate change, competition — rather than cooperation — between the U.S. and China may be the spur to action.
Ask any expert on U.S.-China relations where opportunities for the two rivals to work together still lie, and they will usually give the same answer: combating the threat of climate change. Yet one recent major development shows how competition between the world’s two largest economies is set to be as much of a factor as cooperation in the fight to temper global warming.
Last month, China formally ratified the Kigali Amendment, an international treaty that aims to phase down the use of hydr
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In 2021, after four decades of exponential growth in China’s economy, Xi Jinping revived the party slogan “common prosperity” in order to address the country’s glaring inequality. The policy priority was suddenly everywhere: in speeches, in newspapers and in schools. But now, three years later, it has all but disappeared from public discourse even as the country’s economic inequality festers. What happened?
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