China’s Climate Role in the Global South

PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP

I don’t know about you, but I’m suffering from COP26 stress. There’s so much riding on the global climate summit happening in Glasgow at the end of the month that it’s sometimes difficult to remember we face a few other pressing issues too. 

To this point, Foreign Affairs this week published a poll asking a stellar group of experts whether American foreign policy is too hostile to China. Not surprisingly they got a hard no from many noted China hawks, and as vehement disagreement on the opposite side.

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