Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi

Apr 4, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Yuhan Zhang |Mihaela Papa |Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi |Gu Bin Joyce

China, under President Xi Jinping, has demonstrated a critical shift in its rhetoric on climate change. Unlike his predecessors, who emphasised climate equity and China’s identity as a developing country, Xi’s rhetoric constructs China as a global climate change leader. Despite China’s self-positioning, its ambivalence about carbon reduction actions hinders the effectiveness of this international identity construction. But ambitious rhetoric serves as domestic propaganda.