Can the U.S. and China work together? Don’t look to climate change action for answers.

China, along with India, was a key driver of that change. It came as a rude awakening for many and “shocked most delegates and riled the U.S. delegation,” a senior Biden administration official later told The Washington Post — though some accounts suggested the United States acquiesced to the weaker language. Alok Sharma, the British minister of state and president of the Glasgow summit, appeared upset by the changes. “We’re all well aware that, collectively, our climate ambition and action to date have fallen short on the promises made in Paris,” Sharma said Saturday, adding that China and India should “explain themselves.”