President Trump will soon travel to China — likely to talk tariffs and other issues, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed Friday following a meeting with his counterpart from Beijing.
President Trump will soon travel to China — likely to talk tariffs and other issues, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed Friday following a meeting with his counterpart from Beijing.
“President Trump’s been invited to visit China. It’s a visit he wants to undertake, and so we’ll work on finding the right date for that, but I’m sure it’ll happen because the president — both presidents — want it to happen,” Rubio told reporters after his sit-down in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Rubio made the announcement following what he called “a very productive” meeting with China’s foreign minister “to continue to bring stability to our relationship” on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ meeting.
In a separate statement, Beijing’s foreign affairs ministry called the meeting between Rubio and Wang “positive, pragmatic and constructive.”
The 47th president slapped China, one of Washington’s top trading partners, with punishing 145% tariffs earlier this year — and has threatened to return to those high rates on Aug.
