US, China spar with harsh rebukes in first in-person talks of Biden presidency

The United States and China levelled sharp rebukes of each others' policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration on Thursday, with deeply strained relations of the two global rivals on rare public display during the meeting's opening session in Alaska.

The United States is looking for China to change its behaviour if it wants to reset the sour relations, but Beijing has said Washington is full of illusions if it thinks it will compromise...