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As the world concentrates on how to re-emerge from the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we should not overlook another issue closely related to our future, namely climate change. Which one of the world's two major emitters，China and the United States, is more capable of fulfilling its pledges as schedule?

Host: Tu Yun

Guest speakers:

Einar Tangen, writer, columnist, current affairs commentator;

Xu Qinduo, senior fellow at the Pangoal Institution

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