WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on May 5 that China’s human rights violations remain a key concern for the administration and will be on the agenda during the president’s upcoming visit to Beijing.
President Donald Trump will visit Beijing on May 14 and 15 for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Rubio is expected to accompany him.
At a White House press briefing, Rubio confirmed that human rights violations, including forced organ harvesting, remain important priorities for the administration.
“We always raise those issues, and they remain true,” Rubio said in response to a question from The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD. “I think we’ve proven in some cases it’s most effective to raise them in the appropriate setting. But we always raise those issues. They’re important to us, among others, of course, but those issues remain prominent in our view and in our conversation about these things, and we’ll continue to raise them in the appropriate forums.”…