Dhaka, April 3 -- The first two-day summit between China and the United States held in Anchorage, Alaska on 19-20 March was quite acrimonious. It was the first such summit held since President Joe Biden took office. The opening to diplomatic summits are generally carefully choreographed for press cameras before the doors close for real talks to begin. But in this instance both China and the US publicly clashed during their first face to face talks and exchanged barbs for over an hour in front journalists and television cameras.

In fact, far from seeking to ease the dangerous escalation of tensions initiated by the Trump administration, both US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan used the meeting...