People are burning documents at the Chinese Consulate in Houston, as Beijing says the US abruptly gave it 72 hours to shut it down.
I guess there is more to this story. We already know that they steal intellectual property, so it must have been very serious for the US government to shut them down. Get ready for tit-for-tat.
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People were seen burning documents at the Chinese Consulate in Houston, and fire services were called to the scene.
The police told multiple outlets that people were burning documents in what appeared to be open trash cans. It is not clear what those documents were.
It came as China said the US ordered the consulate to be closed in an "unprecedented escalation." Chinese state media reported that the US had given China 72 hours to close it.
The State Department said the closing was ordered to protect American intellectual property and Americans' private information.
China painted the decision in light of strained US-China relations, claiming the US "has repeatedly stigmatized China," and vowed to retaliate if the US did not reverse its order.
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