Marco Rubio actually said...

We will urge President Xi to allow discussion of China's past history.

Twenty-seven years later the Chinese government is increasingly brazen in its repression.

the notion of a delay simply sends the signal that the U.S. believes that the role we hold is so valuable we're not giving it up

What I do dismiss, however, is this notion that if we somehow don't do it on this accelerated timeframe, then the world is going to rebel.