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Washington | President-elect Donald Trump has picked two men with track records of harshly criticising China to join his administration, a sign that relations between the world’s biggest superpowers are likely to fray in the coming years.

Senator Marco Rubio – who has taken an aggressive stance on China’s emergence as an economic power and has twice been hit with sanctions by Beijing – is expected to be named secretary of state.

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