China changed US Secretary of State’s name to pretend it’s not letting in its twice-sanctioned top rights critic

2 months ago

(TibetanReview.net, May15’26) – To China, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “Marco Lu” while he remain the top US diplomat, and during President Donald Trump’s state visit to the country over May 13-15. Rubio otherwise cannot enter China as he has been sanctioned twice by it for his “words and deeds” concerning its human rights record while serving as a senator.

Rubio accompanied Trump on his first trip to China after Beijing changed the transliteration of his name.

The Chinese government appeared to have used a diplomatic workaround to let the secretary of state in, transliterating the first syllable of his surname with a different Chinese character for “lu...

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