Tense U.S.-China Talks End With No Breakthroughs The negotiations, held in Alaska, featured rocky exchanges between Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his Chinese counterpart. Tense talks with Chinese diplomats end with Biden administration officials saying they are ‘cleareyed’ about Beijing’s global intentions. They’ve been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed,” Mr. Biden lamented after meeting with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta. “It’s pretty windy outside,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary, told reporters traveling with Mr. Biden to Georgia. Mr. Biden, she wrote on Twitter, “did not even require any attention from the medical team who travels with him.

Source: International New York Times March 19, 2021 12:36 UTC