KATOWICE, Poland -- China has shown leadership in tackling climate change by making "immense progress" on low carbon technologies and policy work to reduce emissions, said United Nations General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa.
"I think that China's demonstration of the mutually reinforcing goals of climate action and economic development can go a long way to encourage others to increase ambition to see a sustainable and prosperous future," Espinosa told Xinhua in an interview as the two-week-long Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change kicked off in Katowice, Poland.
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PANAMA CITY -- Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping met here Monday with Yanibel Abrego, president of the National Assembly of Panama, urging the two sides to step up legislative exchanges.
Xi stressed that the establishment of China-Panama diplomatic ties will produce long-term benefits to the two peoples, as evidenced by the fruitful outcomes in the robust bilateral cooperation during the past 18 months.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's top economic adviser said Monday that the administration is planning to revoke federal tax credits for all electric vehicles, broadening the president's earlier threat targeting automaker General Motors.
"As a matter of our policy, we want to end all those subsidies," Lawrence Kudlow told reporters, adding that the plan under consideration is to undo "other subsidies imposed during the Obama administration."
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that the Mexico-U.S. relationship will be maintained on a basis of mutual respect.
"We've maintained a respectful relationship with (U.S.) President Donald Trump and we will continue with this relationship of respect," said Lopez Obrador, who gave his first press conference after taking office on Dec. 1. Enditem
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