This year, it’s become increasingly clear that China holds hostility towards the US and the rest of the western world.
China started off by withholding information about the coronavirus and even lying in some cases, which potentially made the global pandemic even worse.
Now, the situation has really come to a head as the US has been forced to takeover the Chinese consulate in Houston.
As the US Sun reports, the consulate was used as a base for stealing valuable US medical research:
A group of men who appeared to be American officials were seen forcing open a back door of the Chinese consulate in Houston just hours after a US government closure order for the mission took effect.
The men did not respond when asked who they were by reporters.
Earlier, the same group of men was seen padlocking a door on another side of the building.
After the men went inside, two uniformed members of the US State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security arrived to guard the door.
The Chinese embassy in Washington DC and the US State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment on this activity.
According to a Reuters witness, consulate staff had exited the building shortly after 4pm and left in vehicles before the back door was forced open.
On Friday, China ordered the US to close the consulate.
It comes after the US ordered China to shutdown one of its offices in Houston amid ongoing rows over trade, spying, the coronavirus pandemic, and the South China Sea.
We shouldn’t allow a country to operate inside our borders if they are going to steal from us.
Let alone an authoritarian, communist country that takes advantage of our country in matters of trade.
Here’s the latest on Twitter over the seizure of the consulate:
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