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Is There Any Option to Pressure China on Climate Change?

I think if the Biden administration had a lot of great options for pressuring China, climate would be pretty far down on its list. The fact is China's an independent nation, they have independent interests and one of their interests is making their citizens rich. If your policy is about we're going to subsidize renewable power at the consumer level, you're actually going in the wrong direction because you're creating technologies that can't survive without subsidy. That's where we have to get rather than this kind of austerity agenda"

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