The Chinese communist regime has signaled it will communicate with the new U.S. secretary of state despite the regime’s sanctions against the Trump appointee, former Sen. Marco Rubio.
In 2020, the Florida senator, who is a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) human rights record, was targeted twice by Beijing’s retaliatory sanctions, after the U.S. Treasury Department imposed human rights sanctions on officials in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
Following his confirmation on Jan. 20, Rubio is now the first sitting U.S. secretary of state sanctioned by the Chinese regime.
Beijing also sanctioned former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Jan. 21, 2021—one day after Pompeo and the first Trump administration left office….