The U.S. gave China 72 hours to close the consulate 'to protect American intellectual property and Americans’ private information,' marking a dramatic escalation of tension between the world’s two biggest economies
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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.”Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, speaking at a daily media briefing, described the U.S. allegations as “malicious slander.”
Hu said the United States had a large consulate in Hong Kong and it was “too obvious that the consulate is an intelligence centre.” Other Chinese researchers at U.S. universities have also been arrested for visa fraud, according to U.S. court filings.“For some time, the U.S. has held ideological bias to continuously surveil, harass and even arbitrarily detain Chinese students and scholars in the U.S.,” he said.“We urge the U.S. to stop using any excuse to restrict, harass or oppress Chinese students and researchers in the U.S.
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