On September 25, 2015, US China Joint Presidential statement on Climate change was announced during China's President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the US, which did not stress the announcement on bilateral cooperation on climate change signed in 2014, but on a good example on international cooperation.
"The dynamic between the U.S. and China has totally changed. "They used to blame each other for inaction. Now they're encouraging each other toward more ambitious action," Eric Pooley, senior vice president for strategy and communications at the Environmental Defense Fund, told the Los Angeles Times.
If these two countries, who were so far apart on any climate-change agreement not too long ago can come to this historic agreement, it is not only a model for other treaties throughout the world, but international cooperation of any kind.
Robert Weiner is a former spokesman for the Clinton White House and House Government Operations Committee, and was senior staff for Reps. John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Claude Pepper, Ed Koch and Sen. Edward Kennedy. Lile Fu, from Beijing, China, a student at Communication University of China and a Washington Semester Program participant at American University, is a policy analyst at Solutions for Change and a National Press Club intern. Ben Lasky is a senior policy analyst at Solutions for Change.
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