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What may be one of the world’s most important diplomatic meeting this week is taking place in a closed-door conference room at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska, where top Chinese and U.S. diplomats will address the countries’ tense relations. The primary participants are Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi, and China's State Councilor Wang Yi. State Department officials have told reporters that contentious issues such as trade and China’s human rights positions would be addressed, as well as potential areas of cooperation such as climate change.

The meeting attracted international media. The State Department allowed a small group of news organizations that typically cover the agency to observe part of the first meeting Thursday. They entered the room alongside a small group of Chinese journalists. Additional meetings later were closed to coverage.

But as the talks kicked off, nothing seemed amiss for many people downtown. The State Department had kept the meeting location under wraps, and the only obvious giveaways were security vehicles and news crews outside the hotel. Bill Popp, president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. in nearby Peterson Tower, said downtown traffic had been pretty quiet.

Nothing momentous has emerged so far.

What may be one of the world’s most important diplomatic meeting this week is taking place in a closed-door conference room at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska, where top Chinese and U.S. diplomats will address the countries’ tense relations. The primary participants are Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi, and China's State Councilor Wang Yi. State Department officials have told reporters that contentious issues such as trade and China’s human rights positions would be addressed, as well as potential areas of cooperation such as climate change. The meeting attracted international media. The State Department allowed a small group of news organizations that typically cover the agency to observe part of the first meeting Thursday. They entered the room alongside a small group of Chinese journalists. Additional meetings later were closed to coverage. But as the talks kicked off, nothing seemed amiss for many people downtown. The State Department had kept the meeting location under wraps, and the only obvious giveaways were security vehicles and news crews outside the hotel. Bill Popp, president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. in nearby Peterson Tower, said downtown traffic had been pretty quiet. Nothing momentous has emerged so far.

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The Fox News Channel contained considerably more information than the Anchorage Daily News, surprisingly.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-slams-u-s-human-rights-issues-ignores-abuses-against-uighurs-tibetans

>Top foreign policy officials from the U.S. and China met in Anchorage, Alaska Thursday, the first in-person meeting between senior officials from the two countries since President Biden took office. But the summit turned cantankerous when China’s top diplomat criticized U.S. "human rights."

>"We hope that United States will do better on human rights," Yang Jiechi said. "The fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself. In the United States in human rights are deep-seated, they did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter."

>The hypocritical blow was not lost on U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who pointed to China’s human rights abuses committed in Hong Kong, Taiwan and against the Uighur Muslim populations in Xinjiang.

>"Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," Blinken told the Chinese officials. "That’s why they’re not merely internal matters and why we feel an obligation to raise these issues here today."

>China's foreign affairs chief said these matters were "internal affairs" and condemned the U.S.’s staunch criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

>"China has made steady progress in human rights," Yang said in a surprising counter to the international community’s attempts to pressure the CCP into reversing their reported abuses.