decoupling

Clinton Telling China How It's Done

by: Natasha Chart

Sat Feb 21, 2009 at 12:02

Secretary of State Clinton is focusing on climate change during her visit to China. Admirable, though I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read the start of this New York Times article:

BEIJING - Declaring "we hope you won't make the same mistakes we made," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton invited China to join the United States in an ambitious effort to curb greenhouse gases, as she toured an energy-efficient power plant in Beijing on Saturday.

"When we were industrializing and growing, we didn't know any better; neither did Europe," Mrs. Clinton said. "Now we're smart enough to figure out how to have the right kind of growth." ...

One wonders which "we" she had in mind.

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