US Rejects China’s Bid to Hold Climate ‘Hostage’ Over Chips

Jake Sullivan comments on plane to G-20 summit in India
Joe Biden among G-20 leaders due in New Delhi from today

WATCH: India gets ready to host this weekend’s G-20 Summit. US President Biden is on his way, but Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending. Haslinda Amin reports.Source: Bloomberg

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By Justin Sink, Jorge Valero, and Ilya Arkhipov

September 7, 2023 at 2:28 PM UTC

Updated on

September 8, 2023 at 6:02 AM UTC

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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan denounced as irresponsible any bid to link action on climate change to access to semiconductors, saying that President Joe Biden’s administration would reject such attempts.

“I think the idea of holding climate hostage to a particular country’s priority on some totally separate issue is not the height of responsibility,” Sullivan told reporters on the plane to India for the Group of 20 nations summit.