"The United States and China are the two most powerful and important countries in the world. So we have to have relations. We have to be able to talk to them, and we have to, if possible, find areas of cooperation," Rubio said, TASS reported.
"We're going to have some irritants. There's no doubt about it," Rubio noted. According to him, "every Chinese company has unfettered access to the US market," while "the Chinese market is completely closed," he noted, adding that such a situation remains for many years.
"I'm going to rebalance it, but I think we have to be able to do that, and at the same time understand that there are things we have to be able to interact with the Chinese on just to avoid misunderstandings. So we have to have relations with them. We want to have respectful relations with them. And in those areas where we have disagreement, we always have to stand on the American side of the issue," he added.