Climate change a Chinese hoax? Beijing gives Donald Trump a lesson in history
by Tom Phillips in Beijing from on (#21XAW)
China points out to global warming denier and president-elect that Republicans under Reagan and Bush actually put global warming on international agenda
China has rejected Donald Trump's claims that climate change is a Chinese hoax, urging the US president-elect to take a "smart decision" over his country's commitment to the fight against global warming.
Trump, who is the first self-declared climate change denier to lead one of the world's top emitters, has dismissed global warming as "very expensive " bullshit" and claimed the concept "was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive".
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