"It's not fair," Mr. He** said. "Whoever created this problem, they're responsible," he said. Although he said the European Union had largely lived up to its emission-reduction promises, he singled out the U.S. several times by name as a country that hadn't done its share.
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Simple economics says the "they started it" justification for policy is irrelevant. I like simple economics. I might be biased.
*I chuckled at my own title.
**He Yafei is China's vice foreign minister.