this indication came at cop in cancun when a senior member of the chinese delegation declared that there had been some rethinking on transparency now we think if we have done something why not say so having formerly refused international monitoring of domestic mitigation efforts this statement suggests a loosening of a tightly held position while the implementation schemes have not yet been agreed this development does signal a change on the one hand as the copenhagen pledge has been incorporated into the twelfth fiveyear programme the central leadership feels reassured that china will meet its target and thus not risk being exposed as a weak and unreliable actor in the international regime