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CHINA, Russia and the European Union pledged yesterday to uphold the Paris climate change accord whether or not the United States withdraws from it.
The rush of statements came as US President Donald Trump was expected to announce his decision on the agreement outside the White House yesterday evening.
On a trip to Berlin yesterday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called fighting climate change a “global consensus” and an “international responsibility.”
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
