China is actually split into two sections. People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the mainland China and Republic of China (ROC) is the area of Taiwan. This is one area that is affecting PRC and America’s relationship but that’s a different story.
Within this post, I will be focusing on the relationship between PRC and the states, as that holds the most negativity and debate. Peoples Republic of China and the States have always had that rocky relationship in the past, and still today there are some strains.
They both realise and understand how powerful they are and work with that to stand for what they believe in and to work towards achieving them. But, they both understand the importance of becoming countries that they can depend on and communicate well with. If PRC and the States can have that connection, that status, they will be able to use it to change the world for the better. I believe that we can still hope for this in the future, as right now, they have conflicting points of views.
So, on Saturday 8th October 2010, the United Nations held their Climate Change meeting in Tianjin, their final one before the summit in Mexico next month. And, of course, both China and the States were present.
Therefore, like every other large broadcaster, Xinhua were reporting it to the Chinese public. The Xinhua is one of Chinas (Peoples Republic of China – that is) largest news broadcaster, not unlike that of the BBC over here.
Within the actual meeting, it seems that the United States and China had some issues with each other and each broadcaster took a somewhat different approach as to what happened and who was actually to blame. Xinhua wrote about the issue, but as a large broadcaster company the writers (Liu Jie and Fu Shuangqi) could not be too judgemental towards either party. But I think I was looking for a Chinese biased review or it might have been my prejudice against China came into it, I’m not sure.
The article talks about China’s expectations for what happened between the two countries which I think, helps them feel better about their part in the debate. They were waiting for America to start something with them and maybe that takes the blame off of China and their views. Whereas, America seem to be more accepting of equal blames and the work the still need to put in together to create that unity. I feel that the way to explain this is that China sees themselves as the adult, waiting for America, the child, to pick a silly fight and bicker with them.
The article states,
“As the world's two major economies and emitters, China and the United States are under close scrutiny in their emissions cutting moves, but tensions between them over who should act first and do more showed no sign of abating in Tianjin.
Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, said Friday that China had ignored its commitment made in the Copenhagen Accord while only committing itself to voluntary efforts.
Chinese officials had acted like the agreement "never happened," he said in a speech at the University of Michigan.”
It seems that both parties believe the other is to blame and their tension was brought forward into the meeting the next day.
The Chinese government believes that there should be more of a division between the developed countries and the developing. The developing should be the countries where emissions are cut most. Whereas America, backed by the developing countries, believes that every country should be included in the binding treaty.
Hopefully both sides can realise that together they will make a much bigger impact on the world’s development.
News Article
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-10/09/c_13549225.htm
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