China: China’s former foreign secretary has issued a shrouded caution to America’s new secretary of state: Act yourself. Wang Yi, a foreign minister, and Marco Rubio‘s validation as Trump’s best minister, who had just spoken in a phone call on Friday, their initial conversation since then.
In a statement from the foreign ministry, Wang said,” I hope you will operate accordingly,” using a Chinese saying typical for a boss or teacher to advise a student or individual to act and be accountable for their actions. When Rubio was a US senator, Rubio’s outspoken condemnation of China and its human rights record led to the Chinese government to impose restrictions on him half in 2020.
According to Zichen Wang, a research fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, a Taiwanese think tank, the term may be translated in different ways, and this uncertainty allows the word to express an expectation and provide a veiled warning, while still maintaining the courtesy required for additional diplomatic engagement.
Rubio, during his confirmation hearing, cited the importance of referring to the authentic Chinese to understand the words of China’s head Xi Jinping. Don’t learn the English language that they publish because it’s always accurate, he warned.
A US declaration on the phone contact didn’t explain the word. Rubio claimed that he had told Wang that the Trump presidency would “promote US interests in our relationship with China” and that he was “deeply concerned about China’s aggressive actions against Taiwan and the South China Sea.”
