The State Department announced that it directed China to shutter its consulate in Houston “in order to protect American intellectual property” and the “private information” of U.S. citizens
Communist Party officials over the internment of Muslims and a security law that effectively ends Hong Kong’s independent legal status.additional trade talks and threatened to penalize China because he said “they could have stopped” the pandemic.he “hopes” to travel to China before the end of the year to help quell tensions and establish crisis communication networks. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took a tougher line Wednesday, saying in Denmark that the U.S.
“And when they don’t, we’re going to take actions that protect the American people, protect our security, our national security, and also protect our economy and jobs,” he said. “That’s the actions that you’re seeing taken by President Trump. We’ll continue to engage in this.” Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has frequently criticized Trump’s posture toward China, and Trump is
to appear tough on Beijing prior to November’s general election. Virtually all public polling shows him trailing Biden badly in the race for the White House.according toFirefighters also responded to a call at the consulate, though they were not permitted to enter. Local police news station FOX 26 that consulate staff were burning “classified documents” ahead of their eviction, though it is not clear how they identified the fuel for the fire.
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