Yang Jiechi’s 17-Minute Talk in Alaska Breaks Biden’s Strategic Balance With China

Yang Jiechi (R), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (L), China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister, at the opening session of U.S.-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/Pool via Reuters

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During the U.S.-China talks in Alaska on March 18 and 19, Yang Jiechi, a member of the CCP’s Politburo and director of the Foreign Affairs Office, gave a tough speech to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team. In his speech, there were several paragraphs on “international order,” which were key and revealed a lot of information.