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Climate change is a core issue on which China and the United States(US) are relatively willing to cooperate. Compared with Barack Obama, Joe Biden has incorporated additional elements of climate governance into the competitive track. His administration has attached increased importance to reciprocity and uniformity in sharing responsibilities, relied heavily on coercion and inducement as methods for advancing relevant policy agendas, and focused on the clean technology sector in a bid to decouple from China. The competitive logic of the climate policy pursued by the Biden administration has spotlighted its objectives: to seek leadership in global climate governance, to serve America’s value-oriented diplomacy by manipulating ideologies in the realm of climate governance, and to sustain a relative dominant position in the climate governance system. To a certain extent, the competitive measures by the Biden administration have shaped the external environment of China’s development and its participation in global climate governance. However, they can hardly achieve the core objective of serving America’s strategic competition against China. Such a competitive climate policy will destabilize the strategic relationship between China and the US, impeding breakthroughs that resemble the Paris Agreement in the multilateral climate process.
