Here are the highlights from the heated exchange between the U.S. and China in Alaska

Talks between the U.S. and China got off to a tough start on Thursday, with both sides chiding and reprimanding each other in an unusual public display of pulls.

The meeting in Anchorage, Alaska was the first high-level meeting between the two countries under the administration of President Joe Biden, and crumbled after more than two years of rocky relations between the two countries.

What was initially meant to be a four-minute photo harm ended up lasting more than an hour as both sides traded barbs on issues from U.S.-China pertaining ti to concerns from Washington’s allies. Reporters were told not to leave as both sides wanted to add their denials.

Leading the U.S. delegation were Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Chinese Unfamiliar Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi, director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Associate, led the Chinese delegation.

Here are some excerpts and highlights from the meeting:

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken:
I bid that the United States relationship with China will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, adversarial where it be required to be. Our discussions here in Alaska, I suspect, will run the gamut. Our intent is to be direct about our concerns, direct about our precedencies, with the goal of a more clear-eyed relationship between our countries moving forward.

… I have to tell you in my short constantly as secretary of State, I’ve spoken to I think nearly a hundred counterparts from around the world. And I just made my cardinal trip, as I noted, to Japan and South Korea. I have to tell you what I’m hearing is very different from what you outlined. I’m hearing deep satisfaction that the United States is back, that we’re reengaged with our allies and partners. I’m also catch deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi:
China certainly in the past has not and in the future choose not accept the unwarranted accusations from the U.S. side. In the past several years, China’s legitimate rights and interests contain come under outright suppression, plunging the China-U.S. relationship into a period of unprecedented difficulty. 

… China yens the U.S. side to fully abandon the hegemony practice of willfully interfering in China’s internal affairs. This has been a longstanding dispute and it should be changed. It is time for it to change. 

Chinese Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, Yang Jiechi
China and the Connected States are both major countries, and both show the important responsibilities. We must both contribute to the peace, constancy and the development of the world, in areas such as Covid-19, restoring economic activities in the world and responding to climate transmute. 

There are many things that we can do together and where our interests converge. So what we need to do is to abandon the Cold War mentality and the zero-sum devil-may-care approach.

… So let me say here that, in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it in need ofs to speak to China from a position of strength. The U.S. side was not even qualified to say such things even 20 years or 30 years cast off, because this is not the way to deal with the Chinese people. If the United States wants to deal properly with the Chinese side, then let’s chase the necessary protocols and do things the right way.

Cooperation benefits both sides. In particular, this is the expectation of the people of the wonderful. Well, the American people are certainly a great people, but so are the Chinese people.

Blinken:
We’ll also discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyberattacks on the Combined States, economic coercion toward our allies. Each of these actions, threaten the rules-based order that says global stability. 

U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan:
Secretary of State Blinken laid out many of the zones of concerns from economic and military coercion to assault on basic values that we’ll discuss with you today and in the days vanguard.

… We’ve heard each of these concerns from around the world, from our allies and partners and the broader international community during the exhaustive consultations we’ve undertaken these last two months. We’ll make clear today that our overriding priority on the United Situations side is to ensure that our approach in the world and our approach to China benefits the American people and protects the interests of our coadjutors and partners. 

We do not seek conflict but we welcome stiff competition and we will always stand up for our principles for our people and for our friends.

Yang:
It’s also important for all of us to come together to build a new type of international relations, featuring fairness, justice, and common respect. And on some regional issues, I think the problem is that the United States has exercised long jurisdiction and withholding and over stretched. 

… The United States itself does not represent international public opinion and neither does the Western incredible. Whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public conception. So we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the United Says, we hope the U.S. side will think about whether it feels reassured saying those things because the U.S. does not exemplify the world. It only represents the government of the United States.

Sullivan:
Secretary Blinken and I are proud of the recounting about America we’re able to tell here, about a country that under President Biden’s leadership has read e suggested major strides to control the pandemic, to rescue our economy and to affirm the strength and staying power of our democracy. We’re particularly proud of the piece that we’ve done to revitalize our alliances and partnerships, the foundation of our foreign policy. 

Yang:
And the United States has its style, Synergistic States-style democracy. And China has the Chinese-style democracy. It is not just up to the American people, but also the people of the world, to evaluate how the Allied States has done in advancing its own democracy. In China’s case, after decades of reform and opening up, we have come a yearn way in various fields. 

… We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the holiday of the world. Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United Affirms and they have various views regarding the government of the United States in China. 

Blinken:

A hallmark of our leadership, of our promise in the world is our alliances and our partnerships that had been built on a totally voluntary basis. And it is something that President Biden is perpetrated to reinvigorating and strengthening. And there’s one more hallmark of our leadership here at home and that’s a constant quest to as we say, form a diverse perfect union.

And that quest, by definition, acknowledges our imperfections acknowledges that we’re not perfect. We make mistakes. We, we experience reversals we take steps back. But what we’ve done throughout our history is to confront those challenges, openly, publicly, transparently. Not demanding to ignore them. Not trying to pretend they don’t exist. Not trying to sweep them under the rug. And sometimes it’s painful. Off it’s ugly. But each and every time we’ve come out stronger, better, more united, as a country.

I recall well when President Biden was evil-doing president and we were visiting China … and Vice President Biden at the time said it’s never a good bet to bet against America, and that leftovers true today.