China claims it will be carbon neutral in 40 years

Washington Examiner:

President Xi Jinping has won international praise and media plaudits for his announcement on Tuesday that China aims to be carbon neutral by 2060.

Xi's pledge should not be taken seriously — it is nothing more than a base public relations stunt.

The true measure of the Chinese Communist Party chairman's insincerity is reality. While Xi talks a good game about joining with the world to reduce carbon emissions dramatically, his actions are rather different. Since Xi's 2014 pledge to President Barack Obama that China would stop increasing emissions by 2030, his regime has constructed hundreds of high carbon-emission coal power plants. These plants reflect the party's priority focus on economic growth and steady improvements to living standards.

Still, the plants also reflect a broader political understanding: Xi's awareness that the international community isn't terribly concerned with his vast carbon footprint, just as long as he claims that reduction reforms are underway. The free pass China was given at last December's COP-25 climate change summit offers a grand example of this dynamic in action.

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So he is actually pushing his pledge out another 10 years from the one he made to Obama in bad faith. Meanwhile. liberals pretend that China is doing better than Trump even though carbon reduction has actually been reduced by Trump's energy policies.