{"id":961,"date":"2026-05-13T02:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:40:17","slug":"linguistic-workaround-allows-marco-rubio-sanctioned-by-beijing-to-travel-to-china-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic workaround allows Marco Rubio, sanctioned by Beijing, to travel to China for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government appears to be using the workaround of a different character to represent part of the secretary of state\u2019s name, to allow him to visit the country for the upcoming Trump summit<\/p>\n<p>US secretary of state Marco Rubio is heading to Beijing with president Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/china-sanctions-11-us-citizens-including-marco-rubio-and-ted-cruz\">despite being under Chinese sanctions<\/a> \u2013 a breakthrough that might have been made possible after China changed his name\u2019s transliteration.<\/p>\n<p>As a US senator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\">Rubio<\/a>, who is visiting China for the first time, fiercely championed human rights in China, which retaliated by imposing sanctions on him twice \u2013 adopting a tactic more often used by the US against adversaries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/13\/marco-rubio-china-visit-new-character-name-trump-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government appears to be using the workaround of a different character to represent part of the secretary of state\u2019s name, to allow him to visit the country for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=961\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}