China tweaks Rubio's name to bypass travel ban for Trump-Xi meeting

China has altered the transliteration of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name, a bureaucratic workaround that allowed him to enter the country for a high-stakes meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, according to reports. Rubio was sanctioned as a U.S. senator by the Chinese government in 2020 for criticizing Beijing’s...
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