China Says U.S. Ordered Abrupt Closure of Houston Consulate

Jul.22 -- The U.S. government abruptly ordered China to close its consulate in Houston in an “unprecedented escalation,” the Foreign Ministry said, in the latest sign of deteriorating ties between the world’s biggest economies. Derek Wallbank reports on "Bloomberg Surveillance."

[supvillain]

it starts when Chinese government wanted every returning US diplomatic staffs in Wuhan to have COVID-19 test and quarantine, but it said US has strongly refused to do any tests or quarantine at all (same problem happened in Japan and Korea, US soldiers and diplomatic staffs who has infected spread virus everywhere), i guess US worries that personal information might be records, "information collector" could be monitored and it's bad for later operations.
in Chinese side, diplomatic personal information collection might be not important than avoiding few potential virus carriers to spread virus in one of major cities in China. Especially when these people has diplomatic privilege....

[mopar]

Fire up the B2 bombers, get some butter, fry some rice.

[danielraymadden]

Trust is earned trust is greater than money. Money cannot buy trust.

[ag]

America is losing its global leadership and it is mad

[margarita]

If you want to travel to China right now, everyone needs to be quarantined in the hotel for 2 weeks. US wants to send ppl to their consulate in Wuhan but they don’t want to be quarantined. China refused this request. That’s part of the reasons. But really it’s all for the election.

[llkk]

Bluffing, America is like a 5-year-old kid~

[yz]

Documents burning was the result of closure order not the cause. They only have 72 hours to leave and were destroying documents for security reasons.

[bunnyback]

All countries must have the same values and ideology in order to interact? Are you kidding? Only my kind is worthy to coexist with me. How terrible if the world is like this!

[BerlinDys]

now its time to get as much Nuka Cola Caps as possible

[KK-cuun]

China says? Aren't u supposed to know more as an American media company?

[rainland]

Blatantly set fire and polluted the atmosphere.

[raymondchow]

This is not even creative tactic. US did the same thing to Russia in 2018. It had abosulte zero effect on anything.

[zorall.]

A wave of conspiracy theories is coming again 🍉

[CandycaneBeyond]

Correction.... papers being burned ON TOP OF THE BUILDING. Then, they would not let the fire department in. They had to stand by and hope it didn't get out of control.

[mr]

Come on Japan 🇯🇵!!!You guys need to step up more as free nations... you have bigger role to play in region...

“Peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific region.”
US🇺🇸-Japan🇯🇵 Security Treaty and also
US 🇺🇸 -Japan 🇯🇵 Security Arrangements and to enhance the deterrence of the Alliance not only for the peace and security of US 🇺🇸 and Japan 🇯🇵, but also for the peace and stability of the “Asia-Pacific region”.

[trackingsvm]

All for the election. We will see the escalation till Nov.

[Carolina_Panthers]

I will always support China 🇨🇳 america better stand down before its too late. 🤷🏿‍♂️

[bunnyback]

"Houston, we have a problem!"

[michelfortier]

I'm not a Trump guy but I'm in total agreement with Trump on this issue. There has been a large sucking sound of jobs and intellectual property rights from China. What we shouldn't forget is the amount of blame to CEO's who shipped jobs off to China in order to cut costs thereby giving themselves larger bonuses. Additional, Congress has done NOTHING about these issues ever therefore blame truly rests on their shoulders. We don't correct these trade imbalance issues ASAP and there won't be anything left of this Country. Think....70% of our GDP is based on consumer consumption, usually of Chinese made products. We pride ourselves on all of the jobs that were created in the last 4-5 years but don't forget, 48% of those jobs paid under $42K/year and 29% paid under $18K/year. Warehouse jobs, Grubhub and Uber driver jobs with very little benefits is what we've had. The middle class is going away. We need wholesale changes in this Country. We're 16th in the world on educating our kids, the wealthy have increased their wealth to extreme measures and yet, sadly we focus on football and baseball, teams owned by billionaires who allowed tax benefits we only wish the middle class had.

[gandhikumar]

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Let's see if Mahatma Gandhi's words are correct.