China Warns Trump That Leaving the Paris Climate Accord Will Threaten Future Trade Deals

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As China warns President Donald Trump not to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, the new POTUS must prepare to face headwinds at his first-ever G7 in Sicily later this month…
You see, seven major world leaders (from the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Italy) will meet on May 26 to talk global economics, international security – and energy policy.
The conference is critical to Trump’s anti-globalization agenda.
But the director of China’s National Center for Climate Change, Chai Qimin, suspects that U. S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord – originally signed on April 22, 2016 – will provoke world leaders to distrust the new U. S. president; the U. S.’ withdrawal would insinuate a lack of international concern.
And so Chai issued this warning to the United States on May 5…

This post was published at Wall Street Examiner on May 9, 2017.