richard, when you think about where a meeting like this goes from here, shouldn t rex tillerson, the secretary of state have been there? i m a little puzzled by the, just the sort of staffing of these kind of, these things to ensure that there would be follow-up and policies that are talked about by the two heads of government actually happened? yeah, someone said that about 80% to 90% of life is implementation, so what often happens after these meetings is often what happens in it. and often the sides turn out to agree on things. i don t quite understand, i ll be honest, fareed, why rex tillerson the new secretary of state the traveling, it s very hard for him to represent u.s. policy towards asia, because there isn t much u.s. policy towards asia. i think he would be wiser to stay home, focus on getting his building staffed up, which is
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withdraw the united states from the paris deal, the climate change treaty, what would that do? of course we ll wait and see how this actually develops, but obviously, i would think that would be a very bad idea. and let me say why and it was related to what it would do. number one, you know, every country in the world fundamentally has now committed to a low carbon future. there s no going back. one of my friends in industry would say you can t keep the waves off the beach. we are going to a low carbon future. a second point in paris, the paris agreement on carbon targets by definition was the end of the paris meeting, we should not forget the beginning of the paris meeting, at which technology innovation was put at the center of the solution to the climate change challenge. number three, the predictions, an arm of the world bank and the international energy agency, they are now saying that that
on gasoline. whatever hoopla the other leaders can womp up at their paris meeting, remember this. their deal will not be binding, and if it were, it would have to clear the senate, which it can t. this begged a lot of similarities with iran. there are similarities. in the case of the iran deal, there was money up front, that is to say, money that was the reason so many people resisted the deal. on the other hand, money needs to be there for those to fight climate change, but that would be an appropriation by congress, and all the republicans up there say there s no way he s going to get that. so he can continue to do what
essentially empty. protect the resources for the state department, diplomacy, foreign aid and the budget, which has been decimated and really develop his personal relationship with this president. at the end of the day, a secretary of state is only as effective as his relationship with the president. and there just isn t that type of closeness. if he had to go somewhere, asia is the right topic. if he s going to travel and not be at this meeting, this is the right place at the right time. and there is a looming crisis in asia, created by north korea s relentless attempts to get a ballistic missile that can reach the united states. over the last year, this effort to get a missile that can hit us with a nuclear war head has accelerated an they re getting closer to the day when that