CLIMATE CHANGE:

BEIJING: China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping has followed up his video address to this week’s climate conference at the United Nations with a second televised speech that further explains the Asian superpower’s new approach to climate change.

The speech, translated as Xi spoke in Chinese, followed the historic decision he announced this week for China to set itself an emissions reduction target.

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here,” Xi said in his latest live televised speech. (main picture) “I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.

“Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones.

“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”

UN observers said Xi’s latest speech was significant because it drew a further distinction between his approach to tackling global warming and that of US President Donald Trump who told the UN meeting that climate change was a “con job”.

“Of course we will need to analyse Xi’s speech carefully, and we need to be careful when assessing his declarations given the mistakes or misinterpretations that can happen when it is translated from Chinese to English,” one climate activist said.

“For instance although Xi appeared to be very passionate about tackling climate change, we need to drill down into the section of his speech that when translated seems to assert that the best way China can lower its per capita emission levels is to invade and take over Taiwan,” the observer said.

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