"Spreading the wealth" China's way

Yeah, you read that right. The US will be paying China to control their greenhouse gases. Yeah, they are a "developing" country. CHINA, you say? Oh, yeah, you're right. THAT China! The one that's richer than we are and has been buying up OUR debt. We are calling it "assistance mechanism" these days.

Regardless, the United States will be spreading the wealth China’s way, helping them to meet whatever final carbon emissions reduction goals come out of Copenhagen.
 
“It [assistance] needs to focus both on mitigation – the means of producing your CO2 emissions, putting you on a low carbon path – and adaptation, which has to do with dealing with the effects of climate change that has already happened,” said Stern, then, “yes, there will need to be those [assistance] mechanism