Marco Rubio Urges Obama to Stand Up to China

As the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) kicked off in Washington, D.C., on Monday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Republican presidential hopeful, called on President Barack Obama to stand up to that Asian nation. 

 
“I am deeply concerned by the Chinese government’s recent aggressive actions against the United States and our allies as well as its increasingly repressive posture at home,” Rubio wrote Obama in a letter. “I urge your administration to make these issues a priority during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) that begins today. After six years of your Administration’s participation in this dialogue, we need more than talking points. We need to see a change in Chinese behavior or real consequences for China’s increasingly egregious actions.”