China urges US to hold the line on climate policy, regardless of election outcome

A senior Chinese official has called on the United States to maintain stable climate change policies after Tuesday’s presidential election.

Xia Yingxian, director of the climate change department of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, told a press conference on Friday that he hoped the US would continue to “work with other countries to implement the provisions of the Paris Agreement”.

China will send a delegation of more than 90 people to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as Cop29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month and will continue to “deepen South-South cooperation on climate change”, according to Xia.

He added that Beijing expected Washington to “maintain the stability and consistency of its climate policy” after the election.

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Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said if Donald Trump won the election, “his administration will reverse US climate policies and shelve bilateral climate talks with China”.