Ben Adler·Senior Climate EditorThu, November 11, 2021, 2:40 PM·3 min readIn this article:

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-casts-shadow-over-glasgow-climate-change-negotiations-224002782.html

• Donald Trump45th President of the United States
• Joe Biden46th and current president of the United States
• Xie ZhenhuaChinese politician

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Democrats from the Biden administration and Congress have been in the unusual position at the U.N. Climate Change Conference of taking the blame for the actions of their archnemesis, former President Donald Trump, in public — and in private as well, Yahoo News has learned.

In a private meeting between the Senate delegation and China’s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua, Xie chastised the U.S. repeatedly for Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement.

“I sat down with the Chinese this morning. I thought that was an interesting exchange,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told Yahoo News on Saturday afternoon. “They did not…