Despite the tense start of the meeting and some describing the talks as a “diplomatic clash,” China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi (杨洁篪) called the meeting “frank, constructive and helpful,” New York Times reports.
The first major U.S.-China meeting of the Biden administration ended on Friday, March 19. Over the past days, the U.S.-China strategic talks in Anchorage have been a major topic of discussion on Chinese social media. Chinese female translator Zhang Jing became an online hit in China for remaining unflustered, graceful, and accurate.
It probably was not easy to translate the tough talks at the high-level meeting between the U.S.