{"id":229267,"date":"2022-11-15T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=229267"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:59:58","slug":"australian-government-hopes-china-will-lead-on-climate-change-and-peace-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=229267","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government Hopes China will Lead on Climate Change and Peace in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"229268\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=229268\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-528.png?fit=750%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,464\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-528\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-528.png?fit=723%2C447&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-528.png?resize=723%2C447&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229268\" width=\"723\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-528.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-528.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Xi Jinping:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ali_Khamenei_receives_Xi_Jinping_in_his_house_(6)_(cropped).jpg\">Official website of Ali Khamenei, Supreme leader of Iran<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\">CC BY 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons. Globe from NASA (Public Domain). Match:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/wiki\/User:XRay\">Dietmar Rabich<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Streichholz_--_2021_--_6120.jpg\">\u201cStreichholz &#8212; 2021 &#8212; 6120\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC\u00a0BY-SA\u00a04.0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Another chapter in Australia\u2019s increasingly incoherent climate policy and international diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Penny Wong flags cooperation on climate change as Australia tries to reboot relationship with China<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Minister also reiterates Australia\u2019s expectation that China use its influence with Vladimir Putin to end Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s foreign affairs minister,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/penny-wong\">Penny Wong<\/a>, has flagged working more closely with China on issues such as climate change as part of ongoing efforts to reboot the fractured relationship after years of public confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As Anthony Albanese&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/12\/anthony-albanese-signals-to-china-that-australia-is-open-for-dialogue-without-preconditions\">signalled publicly his willingness to meet with China\u2019s leaders<\/a>&nbsp;during the week-long international summit season in Cambodia, Bali and Bangkok, Wong used a major foreign policy speech in Australia to articulate her objective to stabilise relations with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Wong said her objective was to work out areas of \u201cmutual benefit in our relationship, and we are open to working with China in other ways, including to address major transnational challenges like climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Wong said Australia needed to tread its own path. \u201cIf Australia can be effective in our diplomacy, especially in multilateral and mini-lateral groupings, we have will more chance of upholding the international order, maintaining our independence, exercising our agency, and achieving the equilibrium that is the basis of sustainable peace and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/13\/penny-wong-flags-cooperation-on-climate-change-as-australia-tries-to-reboot-relationship-with-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/13\/penny-wong-flags-cooperation-on-climate-change-as-australia-tries-to-reboot-relationship-with-china<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What are Australia\u2019s government ministers attempting to achieve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Do they believe if they cosy up to Xi Jinping, China will build fewer coal plants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Do they think China has any motivation to try to end the Ukraine war, and to end the Western sanctions which have turned Russia into a captive supplier of cheap energy to China and India?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Does looking weak and needy in any way help Australia placate an increasingly belligerent Chinese leadership, or help the USA maintain a strong front against Chinese aggression in the South China Sea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The phrase which comes to mind is \u201camateur hour\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">Watts Up With That?<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">November 14, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a 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