China's climate secrecy at Cancun comes as blow to strategic arms control advocates
If China's position on international climate change is an indication, future arms control talks with Beijing will be stymied by the communist government's refusal to permit on-site inspectors needed for verifiable arms agreements.
In Copenhagen and Cancun, site of the two last international meetings on how to address climate change, China's government opposed all efforts to institute a verifiable system to check whether announced goals for factories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions were being met.