Alaska March 20 — China said the high-level strategic dialogue with the U.S. was “candid, constructive and beneficial” while admitting “there are still differences between the two sides” in a statement released to the media shortly after the talk was concluded on Friday local time.
The first face-to-face meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. Biden administration officials has wrapped up in Anchorage, Alaska. The two-day dialogue marked the first high-level contact between the two countries after their heads of state had a phone call on the eve of the Chinese New Year.
The meeting was attended by Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
