Chinese Nationals Caught Burning Documents Shortly After US Orders China Consulate in Houston Closed Due to Espionage and Theft

Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/22/2020 | Joe Hoft

[SeekAndFind]

Individuals in the China Consulate in Houston were filmed burning documents after being ordered shut down by the US government for accused efforts of espionage taking place there.

The Chicago Tribune reported this morning:

The United States said Wednesday that it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property” and the private information of Americans.

China strongly condemned the move, the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration as it ratchets up pressure on the world’s second-largest economy over trade, technology, human rights and security.

Firefighters responded to reports of papers being burned on the consulate grounds Tuesday night but were barred entry, according to Houston news media reports.

The U.S., in a brief statement, did not provide any details on why the consulate in Texas was targeted.

“The United States will not tolerate (China’s) violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated (its) unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs, and other egregious behavior,” said the statement, which was attributed to State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus.

The U.S. also said it would not reopen its consulate in the city of Wuhan, which was closed in late January at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in China, a Trump administration official said.

Video of the China Consulate in Houston was released showing what appears to be fires inside the Consulate reportedly shortly after the US ordered it closed.

https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/status/1285952155107635201?s=20

The leadership of China simply cannot be trusted.

[norcal joe]

Related to:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3867505/posts

and my comment last night:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3867189/posts?page=44#44

[Secret Agent Man]

I am very surprised us media socialists are reporting on their active chinese socialist comrades.

[shotgun]

This makes no sense unless they had to print out all of the electronic data they stole to read it.

[blueunicorn6]

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[lodi90]

It’s apparently Chicom spy HQ. They must have a massive amount of secrets.

[norcal joe]

This makes no sense unless they had to print out all of the electronic data they stole to read it.

As I refer to above in post 2, a lot of the problems were related to visa fraud (to place chinese military in US research positions), which involved lots of signed applications and other documents, which are usually paper.

[shotgun]

That makes sense

[demkicker]

Sounds like China has a spy that ratted to us for a change!

[mosesdapoet]

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[Candor7]

I have a feeling that things are about to heat up in your neck of the woods as China confronts the US Navy in the South China Sea.

I think its coming.

Likely there will be a lot of USN ships having to call at Australian ports for repairs and re-supply.

[Meatspace]

Every embassy and every consulate in the planet destroys documents.

[crz]

The US has sent 105 or so F35s to Japan. A bunch of Fighters to Taiwan along with anti-missile defense batteries.

They (the USAF) also are now setting up shop again in the Philippines. I would like to see what Guam looks like these days. Midway Island might be re-activated as I understand.

The Aussies took a bunch of Abrams tanks a few years ago and are increasing that number.

We also are sending military stuff to India, as well are the Russians. You know that the Red Chinese are laying claim to Vladivostok do you not?

Them bastards have gone full bore out of their heads.

[Fury]

OMG! They are BURNING documents!

The story title is nothing but clickbait. The embassies of many countries use document destruction methods including burn bags, burning, shredders, etc. The US does this.

[VAFreedom]

yes, sop

also, we should assume ALL embassies are spy hq and might also be bugged by host country.

[gunnut]

Same thing would happen if we had to hastily shutdown a consulate or embassy in another country.

[jmacusa]

Japanese diplomats in Washington, DC were doing that exact same thing in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[trebb]

As if we wouldn't destroy documents if we were being kicked out of our embassy somewhere.

Seems it would be SOP for any embassy- not saying China doesn't have more bad crap to hide, just that nobody leaves documentation laying around when they leave.

[Candor7]

We’ll only give up so much just to have the occasional plate of Chinese food like Moo Goo Gai Pan or Chicken Almond Guy Ding.

Its way past time to make the yellow hoard into good world citizens, or they can bite the bullet, and go back to the days of 1958 when the Chi-Coms were starving to death my the thousands every day.

Watch the Three Gorges dam. If that lets go, China’s international crime will no longer have the resources to be able to continue.