‘He’s a villain’: Joe Manchin attracts global anger over climate crisis

The West Virginia senator's name is reviled on the streets of Bangladesh and other countries facing climate disaster as he blocks Biden's effort to curb planet-heating gases

Within the brutal machinations of US politics, Joe Manchin has been elevated to a status of supreme decision-maker, the man who could make or break Joe Biden's presidency.

Internationally, however, the Democratic senator's new fame has been received with puzzlement and growing bitterness, as countries already ravaged by the climate crisis brace themselves for the US - history's largest ever emitter of planet-heating gases - again failing to pass major climate legislation.