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Chinese Consulate Houston
Posted in China Monitoring & Analysis United States

The escalation between Washington and Beijing after the China consulate’s closure in Houston

The U.S. order to close the Chinese consulate in Houston accused of conducting spying activities to steal secret information on new technologies marks a new escalation between Washington and Beijing whose consequences on the international arena might be dangerous and create a fracture during the COVID-19 crisis between those countries allied with the United States and those with China.