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U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, July 18, 2023. Credit: Florence Lo/Pool Photo via AP Photos
John Kerry’s visit to Beijing in late July 2023 marked an attempt to resume U.S.-China climate cooperation. Such cooperation has been a stop-start affair in recent years. The Joint Glasgow Declaration of November 2021 —a product of more than three dozen negotiating sessions — signaled a bilateral commitment to cooperation across a host of climate issues. But China broke off bilateral climate dialogue after Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in April 2022. With Kerry’s visit, both s
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