So far, nobody is even sure whether Xi Jinping will show up.
Xi Jinping speaks at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). He is not expected to attend this month's COP26 conference in person. Credit: UN Climate Change
The most important international meeting on climate change for six years is set to take place in Glasgow in less than two weeks, yet there are still many unknowns about China’s approach. Nobody is even sure whether its leader, Xi Jinping, will show up.
Xi hasn’t left China for nearly two years, largely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest reports from the U.K. suggest he won't attend the meeting. But while his absence from the COP26 meeting that’s expected to draw over 1
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