China: superpower climate rent-seeker?
Is China using climate change to con the United States and its allies? As the UN climate conference meets in Bonn and President's Obama and Xi meet in California, the U.S. should soberly evaluate any Chinese proposals by recognizing that China's aims are simple – to advance its own national interests while weakening its competitors. Barack Obama will find that China will eagerly shorten its journey toward becoming the world's other superpower by indulging in environmental rent-seeking on a superpower scale.