Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, one of only a handful of senior US political leaders attending this year’s UN climate summit, told AFP Friday that President Donald Trump’s America is “deliberately losing” the clean tech race to China.

The 70-year-old lawmaker said he had come to Belem, Brazil, to underline that Trump’s aggressively pro-fossil-fuel policies do “not represent the American people” — and that the United States is forfeiting a vast economic opportunity.

“Right now, we are deliberately losing our competition on solar, on wind, on battery storage, on electric vehicles and all the support technologies that go into that,” he said in an interview.

“It is a huge self-administered blow that Trump is doing, entirely to pay back his fossil fuel donors.”

Whitehouse said that as he arrive

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