WASHINGTON — President Trump will quickly journey to China — prone to discuss tariffs and different points, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed Friday following a gathering together 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 informed reporters after his sit-down in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with International Minister Wang Yi.
Rubio made the announcement following what he referred to as “a very productive” assembly with China’s international minister “to continue to bring stability to our relationship” on the sidelines of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) international ministers’ assembly.
In a separate assertion, Beijing’s international affairs ministry referred to as the assembly between Rubio and Wang “positive, pragmatic and constructive.”
The forty seventh president slapped China, one among Washington’s high buying and selling companions, with punishing 145% tariffs earlier this 12 months — and has threatened to return to these excessive charges on Aug. 10 if a deal can’t be labored out beforehand to scale back commerce disparities.
The US and China declared a commerce truce final month, with America inserting 55% duties on Chinese language imports — the sum of Trump’s international 10% baseline tariff, a 20% fentanyl-related charge and a pre-existing 25% charge.
Phrases of a broader settlement have but to be labored out. Beijing has threatened to place 125% tariffs again on US exports if no deal is reached.
“For 20 or 30 years, the United States has built up enormous trade deficits with multiple countries around the world, in every region — in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and in this region as well – and that had to be addressed. And so that’s what the President is doing,” stated Rubio, who added that commerce was not the main target of his assembly with Wang.
“Particularly in Southeast Asia,” he went on, “two-thirds of worldwide financial development goes to occur right here over the subsequent 25 or 30 years, and far of that’s going to be on digital platforms.
“Those platforms have to be secure. They have to be secure from cyber criminals. They have to be secure from nation-state actors that may seek to undermine it,” he added.
“So that was a recurring theme in all of our engagements, and everyone is very enthusiastic to work together on these things.”
Rubio additionally inked a civil nuclear partnership with Malaysia in the course of the gathering.
The US-China session got here sooner or later after Rubio sat down with Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov to debate in what the secretary referred to as “a new and a different approach” to peace negotiations to finish Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Greater than 100,000 Russian troops have been killed to this point in 2025 alone, Rubio disclosed, however Vladimir Putin has proven no signal of eager to wind down his warfare machine, irritating Trump.
“A lot of people are dying and it should end,” he complained to reporters throughout a Cupboard assembly Tuesday. “We get a lot of bulls–t thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
US officers have additionally expressed concern about China probably helping Russia in rebuilding a few of its depleted navy industrial sector.
“I think the Chinese clearly have been supportive of the Russian effort,” Rubio stated Friday. “They’ve been willing to help them as much as they can without getting caught.”
