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It's today explained, I'm Sean Ramis from on Thursday, Chinese diplomats met with

Biden diplomats for the first time in Anchorage, Alaska. Kind of like a first date, it was meant

to be cordial. It ended up combustible, two superpowers locking horns with the cameras

rolling. Well, I'll continue the latest metaphor. It's like two X's meeting after a really

bad breakup. Alex Ward, one of the hosts of Vox's

worldly podcast. So you really had with the cameras wearing, you had the US side, which

was Secretary of State Tony Blinken, a national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and they

started off with a two minutes each, basically saying like, hey China, you do some bad stuff.

To which the Chinese went on a roughly 18-minute plus, just lecture about what they did not

like about American governance and foreign policy. Such like, hey, you guys have racial

issues. The challenges facing the US and human rights are deep-seated. They did not

emerge over the past four years. The slaughter of black people, the problem existed for a long

time. You know, we're not the country going around the world starting wars in, you know,

that last decades. Hey, you guys have rampant economic inequality. And on top of that,

your democracy isn't that great, you know, we're not going to listen to you. You know,

we're not going to join this rules-based international order that America has been leading since

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