House Oversight Committee Chair Seeks Information from John Kerry Over Climate Negotiations With China

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has demanded information from Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry over his negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party.

In a Thursday letter to Kerry, Comer also accused him of not handing over information related to his National Security Council role.

โ€œYet, you continue to engage in activities that could undermine our economic health, skirt congressional authority, and threaten foreign policy under the guise of climate advocacy,โ€ he wrote. โ€œThe Committee requests documents and information to understand your role and provide necessary transparency over the SPEC and its activities.โ€

During last yearโ€™s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Kerry told The Associated Press that the United States was making progress with China on climate issues.

โ€œWe are going to work on the practicalities of how we move faster [to lower emissions],โ€ he said. โ€œMaybe we can help with technology of some kind to help China move faster. Maybe China could help us better understand some things we could do better.โ€

At last monthโ€™s WEF, Kerry said that the key to combating global warming is โ€œmoney, money, money, money, money, money, money.โ€

In his letter, Comer blasted those statements.

โ€œAs a member of the Presidentโ€™s cabinet, you should be representing the United Statesโ€™ interests,โ€ he said. โ€œYour statements, however, consistently show disregard for American national security and taxpayer dollars.โ€

Comer also accused Kerry of downplaying Chinaโ€™s โ€œhuman rights violations and its antagonism against the U.S. while promoting climate negotiations that the CCP does not even appear interested in entering.โ€

In an April 2021 interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Kerry said that the United States needs China in the fight against climate change irrespective of Beijingโ€™s atrocities, which include genocide against Uyghur Muslims.

โ€œChina doesnโ€™t benefit by not having America as a partner in dealing with climate. And the United States doesnโ€™t benefit from not having China as a partner in climate. So weโ€™re just disciplined,โ€ he said. โ€œWe have differences on economic rules, on cyber. We have other differences on human rights, geostrategic interests, but those differences do not have to get in the way of something that is as critical as dealing with climate.โ€

Byย Jackson Richman

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