Copenhagen climate deal shows new world order may be led by U.S., China
- December 21st, 2009
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SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/19/AR2009121900687.html?hpid=topnews
By Anthony Faiola, Juliet Eilperin and John Pomfret
Sunday, December 20, 2009
COPENHAGEN — If the talks that resulted in an imperfect deal to combat global warming provided anything, it was a glimpse into a new world order in which international diplomacy will increasingly be shaped by the United States and emerging powers, most notably China.
Friday’s agreement, sources involved in the talks said, boiled down to President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao personally hammering out a pact both could live with, even if many other leaders could not. Wen even squelched his own negotiator’s protests.
What Obama heralded as a “breakthrough” — after getting India and other rising powers to sign on — was decried by some nations as too little, too late. The leaders of Europe, Japan and other countries at the summit were largely left to rubber-stamp the deal. The Swedish prime minister’s office dubbed it “a disaster.”
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