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For climate cooperation, China’s minister says the ball is in Washington’s court. China has challenged the US to improve relations with Beijing in order to achieve progress on climate change, according to the foreign ministry, as Washington’s climate envoy travels to China to press the world’s top polluter to reduce emissions. Tensions between China and the US have risen in recent months, with the two countries trading barbs over Beijing’s human rights record and its handling of the coronavirus at the outset. Climate change is one of the few subjects on which the two parties have reached an agreement. However,...