US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US–China Talks

Yang Jiechi (R), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office for China, and Wang Yi (L), China's Foreign Minister, arrive for a meeting with U.S. counterparts at the opening session of U.S.–China talks at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18, 2021. Fredrick J. Brown/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

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Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as zero degrees Fahrenheit in the early morning on March 20. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the weak U.S. response, in contrast, are really worrying.