It appears that President Obama has ended up pretty much nowhere with the Chinese on climate change, despite making this the sine qua non of US-China relations over the past nine months. Yesterday, Todd Stern, the administration’s climate change negotiations czar, tried to lower expectations about any kind of bilateral deal between the United States and China on climate change in advance of both Obama’s upcoming trip to Beijing and the December climate negotiations in Copenhagen. From AP:

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