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He is also seeking to help organize a summit this year between Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping China’s leader

Mr. Rubio was once a leading critic in the Senate of China’s human rights abuses including what the State Department under the first Trump administration determined was a “genocide” being committed by the Communist Party against ethnic Uyghur Muslims

After a meeting in Malaysia last month with the top foreign policy official from China Mr. Rubio emphasized potential cooperation with China

Under Mr. Trump as both secretary of state and national security adviser he has refrained from using the same kind of sharp language

Tammy Bruce a State Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday that Mr. Rubio was “committed to human rights every day”

He did not unveil the human rights reports on Tuesday as secretaries of state typically do

He did not write a preface summarizing the report which his predecessor Antony J Blinken did

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dismantled the main offices at the department overseeing human rights democracy and labor issues and has fired many of the employees who worked on those matters in Washington

New report says in its South Africa section that the country took a “substantially worrying” legislative step toward “land expropriation of Afrikaners and further abuses against racial minorities in the country” echoing language Mr. Trump has used in a campaign to grant refugee status to white South African farmers

Mr. Trump has criticized a legal case before the supreme court of Brazil in which Mr. Bolsonaro is being tried on charges of trying to overturn the results of a presidential election

Brazil section of this year’s report says the government has been “disproportionately suppressing the speech of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro as well as journalists and elected politicians often in secret proceedings that lacked due process guarantees”

New report defends right-wing political figures Mr. Trump sees as allies and asserts that some countries are violating the free speech rights of conservative or right-wing groups

Last year’s report on the 2023 record of the country had many more lines in the executive summary on the country’s human rights violations during the military strikes that followed the Hamas attacks in October of that year

Biden administration also viewed Israel as a close partner in line with decades of U.S. policy

This year’s report is much shorter and less detailed than last year’s

Collective report was delayed as State Department officials worked under the orders of political appointees in the agency to cut language in the report

Omissions were another sign of the Trump administration’s sharp move away from criticizing human rights offenses

U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past language on violations in El Salvador Hungary Saudi Arabia the U.A.E. and Israel

In March authorities tried to close Piano Bar and other venues retreating after social media backlash

Others have stopped selling or displaying alcohol