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December 22, 2009

China US Relations Plummet With Copenhagen Climate Talks Snub

Filed under: Minerva School — Dr David Caploe @ 2:29 am

The Copenhagen environmental talks ended in a weak, informal ‘agreement’ that some called the end of the UN-based world ecological process that began in the early 1990s with the Rio de Janeiro meetings.

In the midst of this generally dismaying sequence, there were, however, some significant events – the most important of which, unfortunately, bodes even worse for the global future than the generally disheartening results from the Danish capital.

This was the extraordinary blow-up between the US and China at the climactic moment of negotiations, involving both Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Barack Obama personally.

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