President Obama urges China to take a role on climate
President Barack Obama urged China to join the United States in taking a lead in combating climate change and global warming. Obama is strongly suggesting that China, now a giant in economic impact as well as territory, must take a bigger role on such issues as global warming.
"I will tell you, other countries around the world will be waiting for us," Obama said in an American-style townhall discussion with Chinese university students in Shanghai, where he spent a day before flying to China's capital for a state visit with President Hu.
Obama's dominant theme in China is that America's only potential superpower competitor shares a "burden of leadership." The president has stressed with increasing urgency that if any progress is to be made on critical problems, China must decide to go beyond local and regional ambitions and its exploding economy and be a key player on the world stage. Beijing must do more with its newfound clout suggested Obama.
Obama and Hu are expected to announce new cooperation on a related but easier front: clean energy projects. With China and the US the world's two largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, Obama warned that "unless both of our countries are willing to take critical steps in dealing with this issue, we will not be able to resolve it."
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