Marco Rubio to Chinese foreign minister: Trump will put 'American people first' in US-China relations

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Chinese Foreign Minister and Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi that the Trump medication volition enactment the "American radical first" and beforehand U.S. interests successful its narration with China, according to a readout of the telephone from spokesperson Tammy Bruce. 

The gathering was the archetypal betwixt Rubio and Wang since the erstwhile Florida legislator was unanimously approved by the Senate this week to go President Donald Trump’s archetypal Cabinet authoritative pursuing Monday's inauguration. 

"The Secretary besides stressed the United States’ committedness to our allies successful the portion and superior interest implicit China’s coercive actions against Taiwan and successful the South China Sea," Bruce said. "The Secretary besides discussed different issues of bilateral, regional, and planetary value with his Chinese counterpart." 

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Wang told Rubio during the telephone that helium hoped helium would "conduct" himself good and "play a constructive relation successful the aboriginal of the Chinese and American radical and successful satellite bid and stability." 

He added that Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had already acceptable the code for U.S.-Chinese relations. 

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"The teams of some sides should instrumentality the important statement of the 2 heads of state, support communication, negociate differences, grow cooperation, beforehand the stable, steadfast and sustainable improvement of China-U.S. relations, and find the close mode for China and the United States to get on successful the caller era," Wang said.

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Trump has threatened China with 10% tariffs connected imports implicit its relation successful fentanyl trafficking, starting arsenic aboriginal arsenic Feb. 1, and Rubio called the state the gravest menace to the U.S. during his confirmation hearing. 

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Trump n Thursday told the World Economic Forum virtually that helium and Xi person "always had a large relationship," and each his medication wants is "fairness. We conscionable privation a level playing field."