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Copenhagen fizzle

According the WSJ, there will be no "comprehensive accord" from Copenhagen. But there will be a band-aid deal between US, China, India, S Africa. The Washington Post‘s initial headline sounds rather too optimistic to me. Look forward to a weekend of journalists, columnists, and Sunday show guests sussing out whether the glass is half empty ...

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According the WSJ, there will be no "comprehensive accord" from Copenhagen.

According the WSJ, there will be no "comprehensive accord" from Copenhagen.

But there will be a band-aid deal between US, China, India, S Africa. The Washington Post‘s initial headline sounds rather too optimistic to me.

Look forward to a weekend of journalists, columnists, and Sunday show guests sussing out whether the glass is half empty or half full. Seems rather parched to me.

Obama, in his final press conference in Copenhagen, sounds extremely tired.


Christina Larson is an award-winning foreign correspondent and science journalist based in Beijing, and a former Foreign Policy editor. She has reported from nearly a dozen countries in Asia. Her features have appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Science, Scientific American, the Atlantic, and other publications. In 2016, she won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Morton Frank Award for international magazine writing. Twitter: @larsonchristina
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