--- title: From China, looking back to the States. date: 2010-10-03T09:38:22Z modified: 2010-10-03T09:38:22Z permalink: "https://350.org/china-looking-back-states/" type: post status: publish excerpt: It always feels a bit like deja vu to arrive at the UN climate talks as a resident of the ever-laggard United States. wpid: 24230 author: May Boeve --- It always feels a bit like deja vu to arrive at the UN climate talks as a resident of the ever-laggard United States. This is even more notable as talks open in China–the country that represents future economic development. Jah Ying, 350's China coordinator, and I are here to discuss 10/10 and the Great Power Race. But what I'm really excited to see, as I monitor news from the U.S., is the outpouring of that 2008 spirit for hope and change, as represented by the One Nation Working Together march in Washington on Saturday. ![sites/all/files/onwt.jpg](/wp-content/uploads/imagecache/Large_500_pixels_wide/onwt.jpg) Our very own Bill McKibben took the stage alongside Phaedra Ellis-Lampkins of Green for All, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, Bob King of the UAW, and Richard Trumpka of the AFL-CIO. If our movements continue to come together, we've got the numbers we need, that we've so far been lacking to really urge change in the U.S.