At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 22, a reporter asked: According to the US news, the Consulate General of China in Houston will be asked to close and the consular staff will be asked to leave before 4 pm on July 24. Can China confirm it?
Wang Wenbin, Deputy Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: On July 2 1, the US suddenly asked China to close its Consulate General in Houston. This is a unilateral political provocation initiated by the United States, which seriously violates international law and the basic norms of international relations, seriously violates the relevant provisions of the Sino-US consular treaty, and deliberately undermines Sino-US relations. Very arrogant and unreasonable. China strongly condemns this. China urges the US to immediately revoke the wrong decision. Otherwise, China will certainly make an appropriate and necessary response.
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The reasons given by the United States are not convincing:
The response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not explicitly mention the specific reasons why the US suddenly asked China to close the Consulate General in Houston. On the 22nd, the State Council spokesman Ortagus's response to the reason was unconvincing: "We have instructed to close the China Consulate in Houston to protect American intellectual property rights and American private information."
Lv Xiang, an expert on American issues at China Academy of Social Sciences, bluntly said that the reasons given by the United States were far-fetched. The U.S. government wants to use this sudden move to "give China a heavy blow", hoping to catch China off guard. It was the anti-China hawks within the US government that contributed to such a bad decision.
Western Network-The United States demands that China close the Foreign Ministry of the Consulate General in Houston: strongly condemn it, and China will certainly make a fair and necessary response.