U.S. climate envoy John Kerry to visit China as talks pick up again

BEIJING — John Kerry, peculiar statesmanlike envoy for climate, is acceptable to sojourn Beijing from July 16 to 19, according to announcements from the U.S. and China.

"During meetings with [People's Republic of China] officials, Secretary Kerry aims to prosecute with the PRC connected addressing the clime crisis, including with respect to expanding implementation and ambition and promoting a palmy COP28," the U.S. State Department said successful a statement.

Kerry's travel volition people the 3rd clip successful a period that a high-level U.S. authoritative has traveled to China for talks.

Although the meetings person yet to output circumstantial action, they people a resumption of in-person communication that fell disconnected owed to the pandemic and geopolitical tensions.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ended a four-day travel to Beijing connected Sunday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing successful precocious June, months aft helium was primitively scheduled to question determination successful February.

Blinken postponed his archetypal plans aft quality of an alleged Chinese spy balloon implicit U.S. airspace. Beijing claims it was a upwind balloon that blew disconnected course.

While Blinken's travel to China led to a wide statement connected the request to summation flights betwixt the 2 countries, the caput of State said helium failed to reinstate military-to-military communication.

"It's intelligibly successful the involvement of some countries to debar immoderate benignant of miscalculations, particularly military," Blinken said successful an interrogation Tuesday with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, according to a State Department transcript. "So that's thing we'll proceed to look for."

Blinken added the "lengthy discussions" helium and Yellen had covered wherever the U.S. and China person "deep differences," arsenic good arsenic areas of cooperation. "That's going to continue," helium said.

The U.S. and China person noted they tin cooperate connected clime and the macroeconomy. Climate talks were suspended aft then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan successful August. Her travel had angered Beijing, which considers the democratically self-ruled land portion of its territory.

After U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met successful idiosyncratic successful November, the 2 countries resumed connection connected clime issues.

Xie Zhenhua, China's peculiar clime envoy, successful April attended a virtual gathering of the U.S.-led Major Economies Forum connected Energy and Climate, according to a White House readout. Xie besides attended a U.S.-led lawsuit astatine COP 27 successful Egypt successful November, Kerry said successful a readout.

Regarding his upcoming travel to Beijing, the U.S. and China did not specify which Chinese officials Kerry would meet.

The 2 sides are acceptable to "exchange views connected cooperation for tackling clime change," China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said successful a statement.

The mean nationalist somesthesia successful June was 0.7 degrees Celsius (33 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than a twelvemonth agone — and the second-hottest for the month going backmost to 1961, according to the China Meteorological Administration.

Daily somesthesia highs successful Beijing person neared 37.8 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) oregon much for the past fewer weeks. Different parts of the state person besides seen dense rainfall oregon warned of flash floods.

Meanwhile, wildfires successful Canada owed to grounds vigor and drought person sent smoky aerial implicit New York and different U.S. cities.

Kerry, caput of State during the Obama administration, became peculiar statesmanlike envoy for clime successful 2021 erstwhile Biden was inaugurated.

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