US climate envoy John Kerry will visit China soon to discuss opportunities for cooperation with Beijing in the fight against climate change, a State Department official said on Friday without providing details. .
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This trip comes against the backdrop of a resumption of exchanges between the United States and China after months of tension, and in the wake of the visit last month to Beijing by the head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is there this week.
This will be the third visit to China by the former US Secretary of State since his appointment as special envoy for the climate by President Joe Biden.
In an interview with the New York Times daily, John Kerry indicates that this trip will take place next week and that he will seek “real cooperation” with Beijing.
“China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world and we are also the two largest emitters. It is clear that we have a special responsibility to find common ground,” he told the newspaper.
The Biden administration believes the climate is one area where the two fiercely competing powers can cooperate.
China suspended climate talks last summer in protest at the trip to Taiwan of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.