US closes China Consulate in Houston

                  Trump challenged by Xi's power grab in China - CNNPolitics

The US Government has given China 3 days from Wednesday to close its consulate in Houston, Texas. China has five consulates and with their embassy in Washington.

The spokesperson for China Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin said, "if the Trump administration didn’t “revoke this erroneous decision,” .

   US orders Chinese Consulate in Houston closed

The State Department said it ordered the consulate shut “to protect American intellectual property and Americans’ private information,”At least two Chinese citizens have been convicted of stealing energy industry trade secrets in Houston in recent years.  
The Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said that China's actions in intellectual properties is costing the US hundreds of thousands of jobs.

“We are setting out clear expectations for how the Chinese Communist Party is going to behave and when they don’t we’re going to take actions that protect the American people,” he said at a briefing on Wednesday in Denmark where he was meeting the country’s foreign minister.

China is yet to retaliate. US has consulates in many cities in China and Hong Kong. 

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