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Editorial: Climate least of our worries as China eyes Cuban spy base

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The world, however, isn’t black and white. Nor is it Green and carbon. The same China that might be considering, maybe, to reduce its coal imprint is the same one that’s eager to eavesdrop on America from the Cuban coast.
As John Kerry looks forward to reaching an accord with China over climate change, the communist country is making moves to build a spy base 100 miles off the U.S. coast.
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Climate czar Kerry sees the world through Green-tinted glasses.
“We very much hope to be able to find the pathway to a breakthrough that could make a huge difference,” Kerry told CNBC’s Tania Bryer at the January World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
That was right before a Chinese spy balloon wafted over the U.S. As NBC News reported, that balloon was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official.
That didn’t deter Kerry from mulling a visit to China to for a climate chat.

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