China’s state-controlled media are on the offensive after top Biden officials and their Chinese counterparts clashed during their first in-person talks in Alaska. The two-day meeting, covering an array of issues that have strained relations between the two countries, got off to a rocky start on March 18, with the Chinese officials reacting angrily to U.S. criticisms of the communist party’s human rights abuses and economic coercion. Lashing out over what they described as “unwarranted criticisms,” the Chinese diplomats aired bitter denunciation that veered off the usual diplomatic proceedings, extending the allotted two-minute opening remark for each speaker to a diatribe of roughly 20 minutes. With the translation, what was initially intended to be an eight-minute photo-op went on for more than an hour. Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister and state councilor, particularly took issue with the United State’s sanctioning of 24 Chinese officials over Beijing’s clampdown on freedom in Hong Kong on …