The Straits Times:

If Beijing went into its talks with the United States in Anchorage, Alaska, seeking a reset in their relationship after years of fraught ties and a bruising trade war under the Trump administration, the hard line adopted by Biden administration officials in the opening minutes of their meeting quickly made it clear that was not going to happen.

There was remarkable continuity in the Trump administration's hardline approach to China in the envoys' first face-to-face meeting since President Joe Biden took office.

生詞短語

Alaska

[əˈlæskə]

阿拉斯加

Anchorage

[ˈæŋkərɪdʒ]

安克雷奇（阿拉斯加首府）

reset

[ˈriːset]

重置；重新設定

fraught

[frɔːt]

令人擔憂的

bruise

[bruːz]

使受瘀傷

bruising

[ˈbruːzɪŋ]

十分激烈的

trade war

[treɪd wɔːr]

貿易戰(zhàn)

hardline

[ˌhɑːrd ˈlaɪn]

強硬路線

remarkable

[rɪˈmɑːrkəbl]

不同尋常的

continuity

[ˌkɑːntɪˈnuːəti]

連續(xù)性

envoy

[ˈenvɔɪ]

（政府）代表

take office

[teɪk ˈɑːfɪs]

上任；就職

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