What is global leadership?

Comments on Greg Sheridan “Don't look to Beijing for global leadership”, 24/12/2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/dont-look-to-beijing-for-global-leadership/story-e6frg6zo-1225813287831

Sheridan has probably used his own or a partial definition of global leadership.

In that definition, China can have global leadership if and only if it sacrifice its own interests and the interests of developing countries to the interests of the developed countries, otherwise China fails to have global leadership.

Not surprisingly, others may respectfully and strongly disagree with his definition. By resisting the unfair demands by some of the developed countries that China must reduce its emissions as the developed countries do even though China's income level is still very low and its per capita emissions are only a small fraction of the developed countries, China has done justice to the world and especially to the developing countries.

Why should the people in developing countries pay a high price for the high emissions of the developed countries just to maintain their high living standard while the people in developing countries are still living in poverty?

Even leaving the historical factor aside, the developed countries need to pay for the damages they are still causing to the world climate. There is no reason for them to continue to escape from their responsibility.