On Friday, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet their Chinese counterparts, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi, in Anchorage, Alaska. Laying the groundwork, China’s primary Western focus propaganda outlet offers a new editorial titled “Six points China has to let U.S. understand.”

Orchestrated by Yang, who is Xi Jinping’s foreign policy brain, this Global Times offering is designed to mislead Americans as to Beijing’s foreign policy interests. Condemning the Biden administration’s “swashbuckling tricks,” the editorial begins with the assertion that “China has no geopolitical ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region. … China does not believe that it has the ability, or that it is necessary, to pursue development by imperialist expansion.”