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[UPDATED, 11 p.m.] Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has settled on China as an important stop on her first trip abroad in her new job and aides told me that climate and energy will be high on the agenda. (Japan will be the first stop on the Asian trip, which is planned for later this month.)
The visit to China meshes with early signals sent recently by President Obamas nascent energy and climate team about the importance of working with the industrializing giant on these entwined issues.
I helped Ed Wong pull together a story for Thursdays paper on the conflicting pressures within both superpowers that have prevented them from teaming up on climate despite being the dominant sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Heres a snippet:
Todd Stern, the newly created special envoy on climate change for the United States, will be with Mrs. Clinton in China. In an e-mail message, he said a top goal is to end the endless sparring between the two giant sources of greenhouse gases over who needs to do what first.
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