The United States is “sending the absolute wrong signal” by sending John Kerry, the Biden administration’s climate envoy, on a trip to China to discuss “raising global climate ambition,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Tuesday. Kerry is expected to arrive in Shanghai on Wednesday and has scheduled meetings with Chinese officials on Thursday and Friday, ahead of President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate scheduled for later this month, and the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year. McCaul criticized the plans in a statement released this week following publication of a damning report from Bloomberg that reveals forced labor central to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) green energy policies. “Ambassador Kerry is sending the absolute wrong signal by planning to travel to the People’s Republic of China to discuss climate issues,” McCaul said. “The …