Quad not ‘anti-China’, says Rubio as first summit in two years set before Trump-Xi talks

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Quad is not an anti-China coalition as senior diplomats prepared for a leaders’ summit in the Philippines. The gathering comes ahead of a planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Shenzhen.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, was not an “anti-China” coalition, as the grouping’s top diplomats finalised preparations for the leaders’ summit in the Philippines next month. Rubio’s statement comes just weeks before US President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Shenzhen, China. “It is not an anti-China or anti-anybody coalition,” Rubio said at a press conference on the sidelines of the...