Absurd: China Literally Changes Marco Rubio’s Name During Trip – Lets Communists Avoid Admitting They Made a Huge Mistake

It’s a level of absurdity George Orwell might laugh at.

The political prophet who penned the ultimate picture of tyranny with the dystopian novel “1984” envisioned a world where an almighty Party puts its ideology above reality itself in service of maintaining power.

And for President Donald Trump’s summit in China this week, the Chinese Communist Party is putting on a demonstration that would be comical if it weren’t deadly serious.

It changed the Chinese spelling of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s surname as a way to get around its own prohibition on Rubio entering the country with Trump’s entourage.

The problem for the Beijing autocrats goes back to 2020, when they included Rubio among Americans placed under sanction, as CNBC reported at the time. It was part of a tit-for-tat battle with the first Trump administration over Chinese human rights abuses in Hong Kong, its treatment of its Uyghur