In response to the Trump Administration's climate disengagement, the EU and China have both confirmed their commitment to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, as Europeans indicated at the end of the 19th EU-China summit on Friday 2 June (see EUROPE 11801). Despite this, the plan for a joint statement on the climate and clean energy was not adopted, contrary to what EUROPE reported and to what many observers believed.
The reason is that China again asked to be able to have WTO market...