Trump Is Set to Elevate China Hawks, Deepening Beijing Rift (3)

US President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pick two men with track records of harshly criticizing China for key posts in his administration, a sign ties between the superpowers may deteriorate further in coming years.

Senator Marco Rubio — who has taken an aggressive stance on China’s emergence as an economic power — is set to become the first sitting secretary of state to have been sanctioned by Beijing, adding fresh turbulence to a tense relationship. Florida Representative Mike Waltz, who in 2021 declared America was in “a Cold War with the Chinese Communist Party,” is in line to ...