'Tough' US-China talks signal rocky start to relations under Biden

US and Chinese officials concluded on Friday what Washington called “tough and direct” talks in Alaska, which laid bare the depth of tensions between the world’s two largest economies at the outset of the Biden administration.

The two days of meetings, the first high-level in-person talks since President Joe Biden took office, wrapped up after a rare and fiery kick-off on Thursday when the two sides publicly skewered each others’ policies in front of TV cameras...