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BEIJING/SHANGHAI: A senior Chinese official accused the United States on Wednesday of deflecting blame and breaking its word when it comes to fighting climate change , as the simmering diplomatic row between the world's two biggest economies shifts to the environment. The U.S. State Department said last month that China had showed "willful disregard" for air, land and water quality, and was putting global health at risk, with its climate-warming greenhouse gases the highest in the world and still rising. But Washington cannot make other countries take responsibility for its own environmental failures, said Li Gao, head of the climate...
