US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in his first call with his Chinese counterpart, voiced "serious concern" Friday over Beijing's "coercive" moves on Taiwan and in the South China Sea, the State Department said.

But that detail is conspicuously absent from State Department's account of a phone call reportedly made at the top American envoy's request US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone call with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Friday,