This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelor. Climate changed the concern of the Biden administration

led by John Kerry, former Secretary of State, former longtime senior member of the Massachusetts

Senate contingent. He's now leading climate for the U.S. and I read from the report of the

Financial Times. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry arrived in China within these last

hours to restart stall negotiations over global warming. The negotiations were, quote,

halted by Beijing in 2022 and protested how Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. Although

Mr. Kerry has informally met his counterpart on the sidelines of climate events. Kerry

told lawmakers before he left, what we want to do is find ways to see if China and the

United States can advance the cause together for the rest of the world by accelerating

rates of doing things. Gordon, I come to you on this because my common

sensical puzzle is we're talking to a state that is aggressive and offensive and conducts

itself unacceptably in its own neighborhood. Also makes promises that it doesn't live

up to also has a non-transparent economy. And yet we're talking to it as if it's our

neighbor or our ally or some idea of working together. At the same time, again and again,

the statistic is printed that China produces half of its electricity or more from coal-burning

electric generating plants, the opposite of green, the opposite of renewables. How does

this all work, Gordon, in the idea that we can negotiate with China? Because watch what

they do, not what they say, but they're not even saying it anymore. They suspended the

talks last year.

Yeah, I don't think that it is reasonable to expect substantial progress or even any

progress out of China at this moment. And the reason is that the state has become militant.

It is beset by internal problems, especially its economic ones. And it cannot keep any promises

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