US climate chief John Kerry will soon visit China to discuss ways of working with Beijing to fight climate change, a State Department official said Friday, without giving details.
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This trip comes amid a resumption of exchanges between the United States and China after months of tensions and following the visit of the chief of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, to Beijing last month.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is there this week.
This will be the former US Secretary of State’s third visit to China since President Joe Biden appointed him special envoy on climate.
In an interview with the New York Times newspaper, John Kerry hints that this trip will take place next week and that he will seek “real cooperation” with Beijing.
“China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world and we are also the two largest emitters. It is clear that we have a special responsibility to find common ground,” he told the newspaper.
The Biden administration believes climate is an area where the two fiercely competing powers can work together.
China suspended climate talks last summer in protest at former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan.