Forget niceties, there won't even be a final communiqué when China and the U-S wrap up two days of talks in Anchorage, Alaska. The first face-to-face sit down between the Biden administration and top envoys of Xi Jinping was never going to be a love-in when preceded the day before by sanctions against 24 top Chinese officials over the crackdown in Hong Kong. Once again, the new U-S president making sure superpower rivals past, present and future get the message that he's not his predecessor.

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