Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi has called two days of bilateral talks with US officials in Alaska -- the first between Beijing and Joe Biden's administration -- "candid, constructive, helpful," state news agency Xinhua reported early Saturday. The talks between the world's top two economies, held in Anchorage on Thursday and Friday, began in acrimony, with both delegations launching broadsides over human rights and geopolitical ambitions. bur-sst/ec