I attended a so-called "press salon" where China's special representative for climate change, Yu Qingtai spoke and "chat" with reporters today.
It's fascinating to watch how reporters try to squeeze a quotable clip out from Yu, but he somehow managed to stay dull. The whole thing last for an hour and half(maybe longer, but not for me). Yu managed to not answer one simple question for 3 times, and shows no will in shifting its no biding commitment stance. As the expert on the issue, Yu took every chance to scorn the ignorance of journalists. "Yes, i agree but also disagree with what you said...do you drive? do you take planes to fly back to your home?....etc, etc..."
On an issue that's so critical to our existence, people make effort to try to understand what's going on, what can be done and what will be done. The answers from China seem to be:
a) You guys don't know what you are talking about, so stop blaming us.
b) You rich fuckers in developed countries should fulfill your commitment before you ask us to do more.
Copenhagen has to be successful, but there's no leverage in what we can negotiate, how is this going to happen? Someone enlighten me.
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