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Written by: Fang Yimei Xu Yian
2020-07-25 21:46
Last update date: 2020-07-25 22:49The United States requested China to close the Consulate General in Houston on July 21. The White House stated on July 24 that the US decision is to protect US intellectual property rights and American personal data. The US "Foreign Policy" journal quoted a US government official on the 24th to suggest that this consulate is China's "commercial espionage base."
"Foreign Policy" published an article on the 24th entitled Was China's Houston Consulate Trying to Steal the Coronavirus Vaccine? ("China's Houston Consulate Trying to Steal the Coronavirus Vaccine?") The reporter said that based on his views and what happened after the outbreak of the epidemic in China in 2019, "China has been very aware of its intention to become the first country in the world to launch a vaccine", and Houston's medical connection also made him understand. Why China chose to act here.
The article stated that it is temporarily unknown what commercial secrets China can obtain through the Houston Consulate.
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The article published in the journal wrote that the Chinese Consulate General in Houston is close to the world's largest medical complex, and there are also a group of research universities and important infrastructure projects nearby. The US officials also stated that the Consulate General has assisted in recruiting American talents in the "Thousand Talents Plan" at least 50 times in the past 10 years.
U.S. officials were quoted in the article as saying that officials of the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston had directly communicated with researchers and instructed them on what kind of information to collect.
The article stated that the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, like other consular facilities, has long been used as a base for Chinese intelligence operations. However, a senior US intelligence official said: "The collectors of scientific and technological intelligence from the Houston area are "Particularly aggressive and especially successful".
This can be seen from the words of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray. He stated on July 7 that new files about China’s alleged anti-intelligence stealing from US information are added approximately every 10 hours.
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