By Tyler Durden
President Xi Jinping’s absence from both the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow and the G20 in Rome has drawn biting criticism from Western leaders, and in particular President Joe Biden – who lashed out against Xi in a direct attack Tuesday, calling his refusal to attend “a big mistake”. Biden had told reporters “we showed up” (though the prior day he was caught on video sleeping during opening speeches), while lambasting China and Russia as “They didnât show up ⊠It is a gigantic issue and they just walked away,” according to the president.
Beijing had quickly responded by highlighting the fact that COP26’s organizers rebuffed China’s request for Xi to have the option of addressing the conference via live telecast. Instead Xi merely sent a written statement. And China state media has gone further, later in the week mocking Biden as “powerless” while highlighting that Biden had apologized before summit participants for Trump previously pulling out of the Paris Accord.
State-run English language Global Times mockingly called out the “noble” apology as in reality exposing the deep disunity of American politics, leading to a permanent state of gridlock as well as constant flip-flopping on the world stage.
