unattended to. not for one day. we have had meetings, we have had constant consultations. on the first trip that i made to china when i raised the issue of the climate negotiation that resulted in china joining us w us, i spent most of ta trip and most of that time on north korea. now, china had a particular approach that it wanted to make, and we agreed and respected to give them spaps ce to be able t implement that. but today in my conversation with the chinese, i made it very clear. that has not worked and we cannot continue business as usual. so as you may have noticed from that video, he wasn t answering questions. he was just making the statement today, but on his way out, i got him to come back and at least answer the one question about north korea. thomas. andrea, as always, you are the best at what you do,
coal plants. so what ends up happening, they have gone from denying the problem to saying the problem is so big we can t fix it. what i hear is why should we bother. the u.s. dragging its feet is compromising not only the entire planet, but is compromising u.s. economic . interests. future. but also, what it s doing is, when i sit down with the head of the chinese climate negotiation team and talk, they are ready with india. they are ready to say, we will move our fossil fuels. they say how can we move wait a second. aren t they just isn t everyone just doing the same thing? this is a big game theory conundrum, right? you want everyone else to go first, of course, right, from a rational self interest perspective. aren t china and india just doing the same thing, just saying, yes, go ahead, please, america. no. china is going forward. china has completely left the u.s. in the dust. china is the major exporter of s.o.n.a.r. panels and solar
and through the states. while these are positive steps in the right direction, let s be very clear. these are baby steps compared to the scale of the problem. here s the thing. i want to invert that around. what ends up happening is, what is so insidious about this new kind of rhetoric about futility we have seen in the american domestic political context, it s precisely your argument, right? they say, well, what are we really going to do, we re nibbling at the margins and china and india have all these coal plants. so what ends up happening, they have gone from denying the problem to saying the problem is so big we can t fix it. what i hear is why should we bother. the u.s. dragging its feet is compromising not only the entire planet, but is compromising u.s. economic . interests. future. but also, what it s doing is, when i sit down with the head of the chinese climate negotiation team and talk, they are ready with india. they are ready to say, we will move our fossil fu
have gone from denying the problem to saying the problem is so big we can t fix it. what i hear is why should we bother. the u.s. dragging its feet is compromising not only the entire planet, but is compromising u.s. economic . interests. future. but also, what it s doing is, when i sit down with the head of the chinese climate negotiation team and talk, they are ready with india. they are ready to say, we will move our fossil fuels. they say how can we move wait a second. aren t they just isn t everyone just doing the same thing? this is a big game theory conundrum, right? you want everyone else to go first, of course, right, from a rational self interest perspective. aren t china and india just doing the same thing, just saying, yes, go ahead, please, america. no. china is going forward. china has completely left the u.s. in the dust. china is the major exporter of s.o.n.a.r. panels and solar energy and installing five times