Chinese officials resist US push for climate cooperation

Top Chinese officials are pushing back on U.S. calls for the world’s two largest carbon emitters to cooperate on climate change despite deep rifts on multiple economic, security and human rights issues, in remarks that raise new doubts on whether the two countries can make progress ahead of this fall’s international climate summit. Climate efforts between the two countries “cannot possibly be divorced” from other geopolitical tensions, argued China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, during a Sept. 1 meeting with White...