U.S. climate envoy John Kerry starts a three-day visit to China after meeting with Japanese officials in Tokyo on Aug. 31. The trip is aimed at building on commitments secured during Kerry’s last visit to China in April. Kerry will meet with Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change affairs, in the northern port of Tianjin City from Aug. 31 to Sep. 3, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on Tuesday. The meeting comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing as the Biden administration seeks to form a global alliance to counter the regime over a range of aggressions from its economic coercion to its human rights abuses. Earlier this week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during a phone call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said that Beijing’s cooperation with the Biden administration on issues like climate change and Afghanistan would be dependent on Washington’s “attitude …