US seeks cooperation with China on climate but not at any price | Greenhouse gas emissions

I n the next four months or so, the world will find out whether it is possible for one branch of the US federal government - the state department – to accuse Chinese officials of committing genocide, and for another branch - led by the special envoy on climate change, John Kerry - to persuade China to transform the way its dirty economy operates. Is it possible simultaneously to compete for mastery of the world and to collaborate to save that world? The outcome of this diplomatic experiment will become known at the British-hosted Cop26 in Glasgow convened to try…