In mid-October, as the Israel-Hamas war threatened to spill into a regional conflict, Sultan al-Jaber travelled to Beijing in pursuit of a diplomatic breakthrough on another existential problem: China’s climate change policy.It was the third trip by the president-designate of the UN COP28 climate summit to China this year. And his quiet shuttle diplomacy — albeit overshadowed by the conflict in the Middle East — highlights a deepening concern among western diplomats and experts that China’s President Xi Jinping might be wavering in his commitment to fight climate change.
10月中旬,當以色列與哈馬斯的戰爭可能演變成一場地區沖突時,蘇丹?賈比爾(Sultan al-Jaber)造訪了北京,尋求在另一個關乎生存的問題上取得外交突破:中國的氣候變化政策。