California Governor Gavin Newsom's week-long visit to China includes visits to Shenzhen's fully electric bus fleet, an offshore wind farm, Shanghai's Tesla Gigafactory and a wetland nature reserve. This packed itinerary demonstrates Newsom's focus on climate cooperation during his trip.

According to Alex Wang, faculty co-director at the Emmett Institute for Climate Change and Environment at UCLA Law School, while China has done a great job in installing renewable power generation, which includes the deployment of 50 percent of the world's offshore wind capacity, it can still learn from California in more effectively tapping this immense renewable energy into the grid. Josef Gregory Mahoney, professor of Politics at East China Normal University, argues that California has a lot to learn from China. California is also primed to accelerate climate cooperation with China because of climate change's immediate threat to California.