Rubio to Meet China's Wang Yi in Malaysia
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China has been a fierce critic of sweeping U.S. tariffs that Trump announced on April 2. He later delayed the implementation of most but China, which has said it will respond with its own tariffs on U.S. imports, now faces a deadline next month to negotiate a deal.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, as Moscow's bombardment of Ukraine continues. The talks in the Malaysian capital are to take place on the sidelines of a foreign ministers' meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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