The United States and China have reached "stability" in their long-fractious relationship, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday (February 25, 2026) ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the Asian power.
"I think we've reached a point at least of a sort of strategic stability in the relationship," Mr. Rubio told reporters.
"I think both countries concluded that having an all-out global trade war between the United States and China would be deeply damaging to both sides and to the world," Rubio said on a visit to the tiny Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
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Mr. Rubio has long been known as a hawk on China, with he and Mr. Trump casting the world's second largest economy as an adversary that needed to be defeated globally.
