Things in the Pacific area are getting interesting. China, the United States’ chief geopolitical rival, has designs on the western Pacific. They are building a navy and making territorial incursions; they aren’t kidding around. The United States, though, has a new administration, one very different than the old one, and it’s led by President Donald Trump–a man China has dealt with before. That’s not stopping a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official from failing to read the room, and telling newly-minted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during their first phone conversation on Friday to mind his P’s and Q’s.
China’s veteran foreign minister has issued a veiled warning to America’s new secretary of state: Behave yourself.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi conveyed the message in a phone call Friday, their first conversation since