If Ed Miliband were to set out a radical programme for climate change that urged the EU to join forces with China to create a joint carbon market establishing an international price for carbon around the globe it could be a game changer. More than that: it could be a game changer that market makers in the US suddenly find threatening. America can resist any opposition to its policies. What it cannot take is being sidelined.
With less than one month to go until the return of the UNFCCC Climate negotiations, many are beginning to ask the question: Will the UN climate talks help save the planet or is it time to look elsewhere? Guppi Bola looks ahead to the Cancun conference.
On China, is Mr Cameron taking over the mantle from Mrs Thatcher, when she annoyed the country over negotiations on the handover of Hong Kong?
Cameron’s “liberal Conservative” foreign policy will consign the UK to a period of parochialism and declining influence. Let’s hope it is exposed tonight.
In the week President Hu held talks with Barack Obama at a summit on nuclear security, David Cameron last night suggested China was a potential nuclear threat.
David Cameron entered a diplomatic row last night as he equated the future threat from China with that from Iran. David Miliband was quick to condemn the remarks.
A new report released last night by the US-based Pew Environment Group shows that China has now overtaken the US as the biggest global investor in clean energy.
David Miliband called on China to embrace “an inclusive and balanced form of globalisation” and move away from “destructive nationalism” and “protectionism”.
Much blame for the collapse of Copenhagen has been aimed at China. But in Prospect Jonathon Porritt argues that China will dominate the green technology market.
