Climate Change Not A Hoax, China Tells Trump

Just days after the Paris Agreement was ratified by the United Nations, the United States voted Donald Trump as its new president -- a climate change denier that could throttle the agreement nations are supposed to be working for.

In a Tweet in 2012, Trump had accused China of creating the "hoax" that is climate change, and recently, they finally hit back. China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told Bloomberg that Trump's claims of china creating global warming to make the U.S. manufacturing non-competitive cannot be true, as other Republican presidents too, worked on climate negotiations in years past.

Liu said, "If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s."

George Schulz, President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, has been among the most prominent Republicans to voice concern over climate change, saying that the potential results of such could be catastrophic.

Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry, who helped secure the Paris Agreement last year, said that climate change is not supposed to be a partisan issue, because "no one has a right to make decisions for billions of people based solely on ideology."

Trump also frequently criticized China's trade practices during his campaign. But when he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping via telephone recently, the Trump Team told USA Today that they two were able to "establish a clear sense of mutual respect for one another."

The Chinese president also said that China will continue to fight against climate change, "whatever the circumstances." He also added that richer nations should take on more responsibility than poorer countries for financing the fight against climate change, saying that "we're still expecting developed countries including the United States will continue to take the lead on mitigating climate change."