China believes the United States eventually will return to climate talks, the head of Beijing's delegation told AFP Wednesday at the COP30 climate summit, adding the world must show that the green transition "cannot be reversed."

Cooperation between China and the United States, the world's biggest economies and top polluters, has been key in the past to breaking deadlocks during negotiations at the annual UN climate talks.

But President Donald Trump, who has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, and his government have shunned this year's conference in Belem, a city in the Brazilian Amazon.

"Addressing climate change needs every country. We hope that some day, and we also believe that some day in the future, the US will come back," Li Gao, who is also a deputy env

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