Trump's move to withdraw from Paris accord cedes global leadership to China

Trump has made clear he does not care much about climate change

President Trump has made clear through executive orders and appointments that he does not care much about climate change in particular or environmental protection in general. Trump’s announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement shows that his views have not changed significantly from his 2012 tweet that “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

Chinese leaders, on the other hand, are closing coal-fired power plants and ramping up use of renewable energy. At the World Economic