The diplomatic crisis sparked by the closing of China's consulate in Houston has now pivoted to California, where the FBI says the San Francisco consulate is harboring a researcher affiliated with the Chinese military
BEIJING - China warned on Thursday it will be forced to respond after the United States ordered the shutdown of its Houston consulate, a move the Chinese Foreign Ministry said had “severely harmed” relations.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, described the Houston consulate on Twitter as the “central node of the Communist Party’s vast network of spies & influence operations in the United States”. Hu Xijin, editor the Global Times, a tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, wrote that shutting the Wuhan consulate would be insufficiently disruptive.
Separately, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has alleged in U.S. court filings that a Chinese researcher accused of visa fraud and concealing ties to the military was now holed up in China’s consulate in San Francisco. Chinese state media editorials criticised the U.S. order to shut the Houston consulate as an attempt to blame Beijing for U.S. failures ahead of the November presidential election.Polls show President Donald Trump trailing his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, ahead of the Nov. 3 election as the worsening coronavirus crisis exacts a deep toll on the U.S. economy.
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