End China’s ‘Developing Country’ Advantage | Opinion

End China’s ‘Developing Country’ Advantage | Opinion

China is the world's second-largest economy and largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It is America's chief economic and geopolitical rival, bent on global domination. It exploits forced labor. It manipulates global markets. It steals our technology. It is building hypersonic missiles and a blue-water navy.

Despite all its advances, China is still considered a "developing" country by the international climate community. When international climate delegates meet in Egypt next month, they should launch a process to correct that mistake.

At the time of the 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, China really was a poor country.