US Rejects China’s Bid to Hold Climate ‘Hostage’ Over Chips

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan denounced as irresponsible any bid to link action on climate change to access to semiconductors, saying that President Joe Biden’s administration would reject such attempts.

“I think the idea of holding climate hostage to a particular country’s priority on some totally separate issue is not the height of responsibility,” Sullivan told reporters on the plane to India for the Group of 20 nations summit.

“We have a climate crisis” and “it should not be a source of leverage,” he said. “It should be a source of urgency for countries to actually come to ...