04/22/2021_Editorial

First, the more-than-frosty meeting in Alaska between Foreign Ministers Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, then the round of sanctions from Beijing against critical European voices. Diplomatically, the last few months have been from rather bumpy to openly aggressive for the Beijing-Brussels-Washington triangle. But on one issue, the EU states, the US, and China now find themselves at the same table: the global fight to save the climate. China’s President Xi Jinping has accepted the invitation of his US counterpart Joe Biden and will attend the video climate summit in person.