Trumps Rubio and Waltz picks signal existential fight with China [Video]

In leaning on hawks Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, Donald Trump is setting the stage for an existential battle against China — although, as always, the president-elect’s knack for dealmaking may intervene.

Trump, who rhetorically at least has long broken with the historic bipartisan consensus in Washington for an assertive US global role, tapped two Florida politicians who still believe in traditional US engagement with the world.

But Rubio, a senator said to be tapped for secretary of state, and Waltz, a congressman named national security advisor, differ sharply from President Joe Biden’s vision of internationalism.

Rubio in a speech last year said that the United States was already in a broad global conflict with China, which “doesn’t just seek to be the most powerful nation in the world, they seek to reorient the world.”

The Biden administration also described China as the top long-term adversary of the United States …