Acrimonious first talks between China and the Biden administration


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan exit the ballroom from the closed-door morning session of talks between the United States and China upon conclusion of their two-day meetings in Anchorage, Alaska, US on March 19, 2021. - Reuters

ANCHORAGE (Alaska), March 20 (dpa): President Joe Biden is attempting to reconfigure the frayed US relationship with China to be both competitive and cooperative. His administration is off to a rocky start.

In two days of talks that concluded Friday (march 19) in Anchorage, Alaska, two of Biden’s most senior officials traded barbs with their Chinese counterparts and failed to show any signs of agreement on numerous outstanding issues, from trade to human rights.

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