Thread by @JenniferJJacobs

At meeting with Chinese delegation in Alaska, @SecBlinken says US intends to discuss cyber attacks, Xinjiang, Hong Hong, Taiwan. Blinken criticizes China for taking some actions that “threaten the rule based order that maintain global stability.”

"We do not seek conflict,” Biden national security adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells the Chinese delegation at meeting in Alaska, “but we welcome stiff competition."

US and China bear great resposibility in world’s stability and peace, Yang Jiechi, a top Chinese diplomat, tells @JakeSullivan46 and @SecBlinken. He says US has American style democracy; China has its own style of democracy. But both share interest in climate, economic recovery.

CHINESE delegation lectures @SecBlinken and @JakeSullivan46.

Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi says the US has deeply rooted human rights problems—long history of killing of Blacks—and urges US to do better on human rights issues.

🚨 Frosty opening to Biden delegation mtg with China. US is the champion of cyber attacks, doesn't represent global public opinion, and has history of killing blacks, Yang Jiechi tells @JakeSullivan46 and @SecBlinken. Yang says their opening remarks weren’t normal; mine neither.

👀 Xi delegation tells Biden delegation that they don't have the qualification to say they speak to China "from a position of strength."

This squabble played out at publicly in Alaska, in front of press, at 1st meeting between Biden admin and China.

“Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi told the Biden delegation, citing the Black Lives Matter movement and the killing of Blacks. @nwadhams

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

China “seems to have arrived intent on grandstanding,” sr Biden admin official says. Chinese violated protocol for 2-minute opening statements by each principal. China often makes “exaggerated diplomatic presentations” but “we still have a lot of business to conduct,” US says.