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'New Cold War': US Arrested Chinese Scientists and Closes Chinese Consulates

The war between the consulates of China and the United States is gaining momentum: Donald Trump does not exclude that following the Chinese consulate in Houston (Texas), others, in particular in California San Francisco, may be closed, writes Air force.

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The US authorities believe that the Chinese biologist Juan Tang, who worked at the University of California and was suspected of manipulating the American visa and links with the Chinese military, is hiding in the building of the Chinese diplomatic mission in San Francisco.

In June, the FBI interviewed her. Tang claimed that she had never served in the PRC army, however, according to the special services, they have photographs of Tang in military uniform. Also, during the search in her home, additional evidence of her connection with the Chinese armed forces was found.

US prosecutors believe that Juan Tang managed to hide in the building of the Chinese consulate. At the request of the Attorney General's Office, several other Chinese scholars have been arrested on suspicion of visa fraud.

China called the actions of the American authorities a political provocation. Observers warn that the escalation of the conflict is becoming serious and compare the situation to the Cold War.

Why is the Chinese Consulate in Houston being closed?

On July 22, the US authorities demanded that the PRC close its office in Houston, Texas within 72 hours. Before that, the United States said that Chinese hackers were trying to steal data on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19.

The indictment, released by the US Department of Justice, concerns two Chinese citizens who, according to the authorities, hacked into the computer servers of laboratories looking for a means to defeat the coronavirus, as well as tried to commit other thefts with government support from China.

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Beijing accused Washington of political provocation. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, through its representative Wang Wenbin, called the demand to close the consulate outrageous and unjustified, but the US State Department insists that this decision was made “to protect American intellectual property.”

Videos of people burning paper in the courtyard of the Houston consulate appeared on social networks.

The smoke, the New York Times reported, was visible from afar.

A couple of hours after the State Department's statement, the Chinese government threatened to take mirror measures and close the US consulate in Wuhan.

Rapid deterioration

The coronavirus pandemic, which Trump called the “Chinese virus” at the beginning of the crisis, coincided with a significant deterioration in relations between Washington and Beijing, and in some ways became one of its causes. Partly because Donald Trump, critics say, is trying to shift responsibility for the scale of the epidemic in his country (the United States, far ahead of China itself, leads the world in the number of COVID-19 cases) onto the country where the epidemic began - but Not only.

It was during these months that the communist government of the PRC increased pressure on Hong Kong, essentially abandoning the principle of “one country, two systems,” and expanded the system of forced camps for Muslims in Xinjiang - all this forced Washington to talk about new violations of human rights.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been conducting a diplomatic offensive against Beijing for several weeks now and openly declares that he wants to assemble an anti-Chinese coalition of Western countries.

During a visit to London, Pompeo urged Boris Johnson to block Chinese Huawei from building 5G networks in Britain, called China an aggressor and accused all Western users of Chinese-made smartphones and software for collecting personal data.

Donald Trump, who has already begun his election campaign, in tweets and speeches often attacks not only the government, but the entire Chinese in general. The popular social network TikTok, which has billions of users, was threatened by the US president to be banned in the US because it belongs to a Chinese company.

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Responsible for Hong Kong

Trump is preparing to approve new sanctions against China in the near future due to the introduction of Beijing's security law in Hong Kong, according to which, in fact, the power departments of mainland China, subordinate to the Communist Party, receive carte blanche for actions within the Hong Kong autonomy.

The US is stripping Hong Kong of special favored nation status, which could undermine Hong Kong's role as a global financial hub.

“We would love to preserve freedoms in Hong Kong, but if we can’t, we will hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for it,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week.

If the sanctions affect Chinese banks, it is fraught with a currency war, in addition to the trade one, which has already lasted for about two years.

The latest round in the export-import war was the refusal of Chinese state-owned companies to buy soybeans and pork from American farmers: additional purchases of billions of dollars were part of a US-China agreement that was supposed to help Trump even out imbalances in the trade balance between countries. In 2018, after accusing China of selling significantly more goods to America than it buys from it, the US president imposed prohibitive tariffs on Chinese imports.

Now the conciliatory agreement reached by American and Chinese officials in lengthy negotiations is practically ineffective.

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