President Joe Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry told the COP-28 climate conference this month that there shouldn’t be any more coal power plants permitted “anywhere in the world.” He followed that up by announcing the United States would join an alliance of countries pledging to stop generating electricity using coal.

Guess who won’t be joining that group? China . As even Kerry recognizes , China continues to build coal plants with abandon.

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This is standard operating procedure under Democratic administrations: China manipulates the international climate process for its own ends, and condescending snobs such as Kerry help them get away with it.

As former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Kerry was one of the main architects of the Paris Agreement . He called that agreement “the turning point in the fight against climate change.” In reality, this one-sided agreement helped China’s economy and hurt ours.

Arguably, the agreement’s chief flaw is that it........

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