First US-China meeting under Biden administration gets off to a rocky start

Officials trade barbs over Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang

The first high-level US-China meeting of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start on Thursday, with both sides levelling sharp rebukes of the others’ policies in a rare public display that underscored the level of bilateral tension.
 
The run-up to the talks in Anchorage, Alaska, which followed visits by US officials to allies Japan and South Korea, was marked by a flurry of moves by Washington that showed it was taking a tough stance, and by blunt talk from Beijing.
 
“We will...discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber