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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Washington hopes to person Beijing during the talks betwixt President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart to play a “more progressive role” successful resolving the Iran warfare crisis.
Mr. Trump arrived successful Beijing past nighttime for a three-day visit during which helium is scheduled to person respective rounds of talks with Mr. Xi. Mr. Trump was welcomed by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng astatine the airport, a uncommon honour that broke with accustomed diplomatic protocol.
Speaking to Fox News aboard Air Force One connected the mode to Beijing, Mr. Rubio said the Iran warfare was a “huge root of instability” and “threatens to destabilise Asia much than immoderate different portion of the satellite due to the fact that it’s heavy reliant connected the straits for energy”.
"It's successful (China’s) involvement to resoluteness this. We anticipation to person them to play a much progressive relation successful getting Iran to locomotion distant from what they’re doing present and trying to bash present successful the Persian Gulf,” helium said, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported connected Thursday (May 14, 2026).
When departing for Beijing connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026), Mr. Trump told reporters that helium planned to person a “long talk” with the Chinese person astir Iran.
But Mr. Trump besides said helium did not deliberation helium needed Mr. Xi’s assistance with Iran and that the U.S. would “win it 1 mode oregon the other, peacefully oregon otherwise."
In the Fox News interview, Mr. Rubio described Beijing arsenic Washington's "top governmental challenge" but added that "it’s besides the astir important narration for america to manage".
“(China is) a big, almighty country... We’re going to person interests of ours that are going to struggle with interests of theirs, and to debar wars and support bid and stableness successful the world, we’re going to person to negociate those,” helium said.
"There are intelligibly areas wherever they’re truthful important for the United States that we’re going to person to rise those issues. And we’ll proceed to bash so...There mightiness beryllium immoderate areas of cooperation, too, and we privation to marque definite we don’t locomotion distant from those,” helium said.
Mr. Rubio besides said the U.S. was “not trying to constrain China, but their emergence cannot travel astatine our expense”.
“Their emergence cannot travel astatine our fall,” helium said.
“When (China's) program conflicts with the nationalist involvement of the United States, we request to bash what’s close for the United States. And that’ll travel up connected this trip, but much importantly, that’ll beryllium a diagnostic of this narration for a agelong time,” helium said.
