Public Radio International: China to Trump - Wise men don’t sneer at climate change. November 03, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Environmental, Politics, Nature “If they resist this trend, I don’t think they’ll win the support of their people,” Xie Zhenua told Reuters. “And their country’s economic and social progress will also be affected.” Yes, as rebukes go, that’s rather dry. But any rebuke of a foreign political candidate is highly unusual from Chinese officialdom.