The war between France and Australia over the "submarine storm" seems to be intensifying, and the "scolding war" between French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has spread from the G20 leaders' summit to the COP26 climate conference. Macron has always been angry about being stabbed in the back by Australia, and in an interview with reporters during the G20 summit, he bluntly said that he "knew" Morrison was lying. Subsequently, Morrison openly rebuked during the cop26 climate conference, saying that Australia did not accept such "smear".
Seemingly self-righteous, Morrison even moved out of the entire Australian people to embolden, saying that he could bear all the accusations, but he would not allow Macron to slander the Australian people. In fact, no matter how Morrison exonerates, it seems difficult to repair the crisis of trust between France and Australia, and it is undeniable that it is precisely because of the Morrison government's lack of diplomatic wisdom that its personal credibility and Australia's reputation have been widely questioned.
In fact, the Sino-Australian trade friction and then to the French-Australian submarine storm are enough to see that the Morrison government has no decision-making independence, basically only the United States is in the lead, but just when it inserted a knife for its allies in the ribs, it was stabbed in the back by its allies. As the culprit for stealing French orders, the United States has simply resolved the diplomatic crisis between the United States and France by throwing the pot at Australia, and only the Morrison administration has always acted as the head of the injustice.
It is said that eating a trench is long and a wise, the Morrison government has eaten so many "grabens" and still has not remembered the lesson, and even the Australian media can't help but quote the "soldiers, devious ways" in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" to spit on Morrison's poor diplomatic handling. India's diplomatic skills are much more cunning than Australia's, such as last week's Refusal by the Modi government to announce a net-zero carbon target, which resulted in an immediate shift in attitude less than a week, with a commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070.
However, there is a big question mark about whether this ambitious promise can be put into practice. In recent years, fossil fuels have accounted for the vast majority of India's greenhouse gas emissions, while on the other hand contributing significantly to the country's relatively rapid economic growth. For India, whose national economy is heavily dependent on the coal industry, it seems unrealistic to achieve this goal by 2070.
It is worth mentioning that while Modi's commitment to carbon emissions is slightly hollow, another proposal is worthy of recognition. Modi, while making the above pledges, also stressed that developed countries should fulfill their commitments to provide $1 trillion in climate financing to developing countries as soon as possible, the Observer Network reported on November 3. Under the Paris Agreement, developed countries provide $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries to help them address issues such as climate adaptation and the transfer of clean technologies.
This provision has a strong factual basis, the three industrial revolutions have emerged in Western countries, developed countries have emitted a large number of greenhouse gases in the past 200 years, and have an unshirkable historical responsibility for global climate problems, and to this day, the per capita cumulative per capita cumulative emissions in the United States are still 8 times that of China. However, what we can see is that the developed countries led by the United States are not only unwilling to take the initiative to take responsibility for the climate issue, but have repeatedly thrown the pot at the developing countries represented by China, and even think that we should do more.
Of course, such shameful acts are not limited to the climate field, for example, in the field of arms control, the United States and Western countries have repeatedly challenged China and asked us to "abolish our martial arts." For this unreasonable demand, China recently said something serious at the United Nations. According to the Observer Network reported on November 3, Ambassador Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, warned individual countries that "nothing more than three things" and urged some countries to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological bias, commit themselves to genuine multilateralism, and jointly promote the disarmament process, rather than blindly creating confrontation.
It is worth mentioning that the two resolutions voted and passed by the first committee of the UN General Assembly this time have written the concept of "community of human destiny" put forward by China, after the United States and Western countries have repeatedly blocked the concept from being written into the UN General Assembly resolution for various reasons and asked for a segmented vote, but this attempt has been thwarted for three consecutive years. This is enough to prove that the concept of "community of shared future for mankind" put forward by China is truly in line with the development direction of the times, and the practice of individual countries seeking conflict and confrontation is doomed to be unpopular.
In recent years, China has played an increasingly important role in the international arena and has gradually improved its status in multilateral international cooperation organizations such as the United Nations. In the final analysis, China's great power responsibility in the face of many international problems has impressed all countries in the world, and one Chinese wisdom and Chinese solution after another have been admired by the international community.
On the other hand, some countries have constantly attacked China's "human rights issue" but their own bad deeds; they have exaggerated the "China threat theory" as actually the biggest destroyer of the regional situation; and they frequently accuse China of "not doing enough" in the climate but ignore their own achievements on the climate issue.