On Climate Change, Biden Walks the Walk While China Talks the Talk
Commentary
President Biden organized his two-day virtual climate summit to start on the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement and end on Earth Day, so as to reassert American leadership in the fight to halt so-called climate change.
However, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News, “The decision for the United States to re-enter the Paris Climate accord and then the announcement that the President made today [to reduce US CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2050] is an enormous gift to the Chinese Communist Party and a real threat to the United States of America.”
Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle, which aired to great fanfare on CBS Sunday night, delivered a series of bombshell headlines that likely kept the staff of British newspapers up well past tea time.
What Buckingham Palace woke up to. (Ben Cawthra / Shutterstock) pic.twitter.com/wAzReC6nCz
The couple offered a series of shocking revelations as they spoke about their break from the royal family, Markle’s struggles with the pressures she faced, and alleged concern from Buckingham Palace that Markle and Harry’s son,
Archie, would have dark skin. The interview put the royal family under an unpleasant microscope, and it has already triggered fury in the British press.
UNSC Watch: COVID-19 Resolution Finds Record Sponsors, Council Loses its âGuernicaâ
The UN Security Council adopted two more resolutions â sanctions on Yemen and resolution reauthorising deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia.
The United Nations Security Council meets about the situation in Syria at United Nations Headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 28, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
World01/Mar/2021
New Delhi: It was a busy week at the United Nations Security Council last week, with the passage of three resolutions, including one with a historic number of co-sponsors that called for a pause to armed conflict worldwide to allow equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.