Trump is recruiting a team of China hawks. So why is Beijing relieved?
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Trump is recruiting a team of China hawks. So why is Beijing relieved?

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With the expected appointments of Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Mike Waltz to cabinet positions, President-elect Donald Trump is putting together what some China hawks call a tough-on-China “dream team." Meanwhile, senior Chinese officials also are planning to step up courtship of American business leaders to try to counterbalance the China hard-liners on Trump’s foreign-policy team, according to the people who consult with Beijing. In an article Monday, the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner, stressed the need to foster “internal circulation"—party-speak for giving priority to domestic production capabilities and markets as China’s main growth drivers. During a regular news briefing on Tuesday, Wang Liang-yu, head of the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry’s Department of North American Affairs, said Taipei is “keeping a close eye on the potential lineup for Trump’s new administration." Like O’Brien, both Rubio and Waltz have publicly expressed support for Trump’s efforts to bring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to an end, and for Washington to take an even tougher economic and military stance on China, seen as the U.S.’s top geopolitical rival.

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