China claims it attempted to salvage EGA ministerial with late product list

While some in the U.S. and European Union have cast blame on China for sinking what was supposed to be a ministerial meeting to conclude an Environmental Goods Agreement in Geneva last weekend, a senior Chinese Ministry of Commerce official this week claimed that Beijing's last-minute product list proposal was actually an effort to save the talks. In a Dec. 5 state-run Xinhua news article published on the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Commerce webpage on Dec. 7, Chinese Vice Minister...