The United States and China publicly rebuked each other in the first face-to-face talks between senior officials from the two countries since Joe Biden took office.
Representatives from the two countries met in Alaska, where a highly unusual extended back-and-forth took place in front of the cameras.
When US secretary of state Antony Blinken pointed out "deep concerns" over China's actions relating to "Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion of our allies", China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi responded with a 15-minute speech in Chinese lashing out out at what he called a struggling democracy in the US, poor treatment of minorities and foreign and trade policies.