Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is expected to face friendly questioning at his Secretary of State nomination hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has served for 14 years,

Sen. Marco Rubio says the ‘postwar global order’ is being used as a ‘weapon’ against the U.S. in prepared remarks for his secretary of state confirmation hearing.

He describes rising exports to China of Argentine soyabeans, frozen beef, semen from prize bulls and other farm goods worth billions of dollars. Latin American farming barons are often selling to state-owned agencies,