It made headlines in the British Financial Times throughout Monday, the opening day of the COP, but not in American newspapers: “Biden’s promises for the climate at risk of being undermined by a senator”.
Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, speaking on Monday, “refuses to support the package that would allocate $555 billion to reduce US emissions.”
The next day, Tuesday, the New York Times highlighted that, when saying goodbye to the COP in Scotland, “Biden scolds [scolds] with China and Russia for missing [skip] to the climate summit”.
Already in the headline of the Global Times/Huanqiu, from Beijing, “How developed countries shift the blame for climate change”, in indirect response to Biden. Opening the text:
“Although they have the highest per capita emissions of greenhouse gases and are sending their polluting companies to other regions, developed countries continue to shift the blame to developing countries and fail to deliver on their promises” of years.
ANTAGONIST
It was also left for President Jair Bolsonaro, at the home of the NYT, “Brazil arrived at the conference with several promises, but environmentalists claim that they fell short”.
And in the Washington Post home page, “Brazil, once an advocate of environmentalism, grapples with a new role, that of a climate antagonist.” More even, of “a transgressor, under Bolsonaro”.
‘GREENWASHING’
The tone was no different in Europe. In British The Guardian, “Don’t trust Brazil’s promises, say Amazon activists”, they are for “greenwashing”, cleaning up the image with an environmentalist appearance.
In the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others, “Bolsonaro cancels climate summit to receive honorary citizenship”.
NUCLEAR LEAKAGE?
After charging China, the Pentagon said the nuclear submarine accident in the South China Sea a month ago would have been a mountain shock, Singapore’s Straits Times reported.
But the headline of the South China Morning Post was another, “US sent ‘nuclear sniffer’ plane to South China Sea after submarine accident.” The spyship “probably was looking for radioactive traces from the submarine’s collision, according to observers.”
MORE MONROE DOCTRINE
The Pentagon reported on its website that General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff, in possession of the new commander of the Southern Command (above), facing Latin America, proclaimed:
“This hemisphere belongs to us and no one else, and we are all together in the common cause of protecting our hemisphere from any international threats,” citing China and Russia.
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