Rubio: The U.S. needs to maintain cooperation with both China and Japan to promote the development of international relations.

【Rubio: The US Must and Can Cooperate with Both China and Japan】

On December 19, 2025, in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to a journalist's question during a press conference:

China will be a wealthy and powerful country, and it will play an important role in geopolitics. We must maintain relations with them. We must engage with them. We must find things that we can cooperate on.

Rubio added:

The United States is an ally of Japan, and I believe we are very confident that we can continue to maintain a solid partnership and alliance with Japan. And achieve this in a way that continues to seek productive cooperation with China.

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