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US climate envoy John Kerry to visit China next week
- Kerry, who will visit from Monday to Thursday, said in May that China had invited him to visit ‘in the near term’ for talks on averting a global climate crisis
- Kerry will be the third senior US official to visit China in recent weeks after trips by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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US climate envoy John Kerry on Monday will become the Biden administration’s third senior official to visit China in recent weeks after trips by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
A US official said on Tuesday that Kerry would visit from Monday to Thursday.
Washington has sought to repair ties with Beijing frayed over national security issues, including Taiwan; spying allegations; US export bans on advanced technologies; China’s state-led industrial policies; human rights issues; the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and trade tariffs.
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Kerry said in May that China had invited him to visit “in the near term” for talks on averting a global climate crisis despite tensions between the world’s two biggest economies and greenhouse gas emitters.
The two countries have previously cooperated on climate change with breakthroughs that led to the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Kerry last met his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua in January.
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