America's new Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has described China as a serious threat to his country's national interests. He said that the history of the 21st century will be mainly based on the events taking place between the two countries. Let us tell you that Rubio's name was confirmed as the Foreign Minister after Donald Trump took office last week.

Tough conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister

Marco Rubio had his first phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi as the US Secretary of State. During this, there was a lot of bitterness between the two. During the conversation, Wang had instructed Rubio to behave properly.

"China wants to be the most powerful country in the world and they want to do it at our expense. It's not in our national interest and we're going to look into it. We don't want a war over it, but we're going to look into it," the US Secretary of State said on The Megan Kelly Show on Thursday.

The United States must deal with

He said that there are two things in the case of China. One is that they pose a serious threat to our national interests and the second thing is that they are going to become a rich and powerful country. He stressed that America will have to deal with this.

Criticism of America's decades-old policy

Rubio stressed the need to prioritize national interests and criticized decades-old US policies that treated China as a developing country and allowed it to exploit unfair trade and technology practices in hopes that it would adopt American values.

China has banned Rubio twice

It is noteworthy that when Rubio was a US Senator, he had openly criticized China and its human rights record. Due to this, the Chinese government imposed sanctions on him twice in the year 2020.