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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 22 2020, @06:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the US-consulates-ordered-closed-in-3...2... dept.

U.S. Orders China to Close Its Houston Consulate in 72 Hours (archive)

The United States ordered China to close its diplomatic consulate in Houston, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday, dealing another blow to the rapidly deteriorating relations between the two countries.

In the hours after the Trump administration notified the Chinese of its decision, smoke was seen billowing from a courtyard inside the consulate as employees dumped what appeared to be documents into flaming barrels, according to a video posted by KPRC-TV, a local television station.

The Houston police and fire departments responded to reports of a fire on Tuesday evening but did not enter the building, over which the Chinese have sovereignty.

Also at BBC and CNBC.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 22 2020, @08:07PM (17 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 22 2020, @08:07PM (#1025073) Journal

    I've mentioned in the past, that we were sending a lot of our manufacturing ability to China. There was some sort of brain fart, people in China made demands on the parent company. In response, our people stopped the shipment of every mold still in transit, and had them returned to the plants where they originated.

    Industrial espionage is common, theft of intellectual property is ongoing, nothing slows it down.

    I've been bitching for years about all the politicians who are making personal fortunes, while selling out the United States. Remember the magic underwear guy? Mitt Romney made his money selling American jobs to the Chinese - then the rotten bastard wanted us to make him president?

    Yeah, people, Trump bad. But, at least he's AMERICAN BAD!! Fuck the Chinese.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @08:35PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @08:35PM (#1025102)

    Yeah, people, Romney bad. But, at leas he's AMERICAN BAD!! Fuck the Russian owned pedophile traitor Trump.

    Since you don't believe the "Russia Hoax" oh silly old fart, please explain the unprecedented multiple private meetings Trump has had with Putin, the attempts to conceal every aspect of those meetings from anyone in the US, along with the various GOP members who have met with Putin and specifically the 4th of July visits to Moscow https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664156/gop-senators-spend-july-4-in-moscow [npr.org] or Rand Pauls hand delivery of a message https://www.npr.org/2018/08/09/636982295/is-it-springtime-for-putin-and-republicans [npr.org]

    Oh right, not to mention Trump's own words https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/30/donald-trump-acknowledges-russia-helped-his-election-then-backtracks/1221107001/ [usatoday.com] and https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/02/donald-trump/donald-trump-rewrites-history-about-his-russia-if-/ [politifact.com] where he uses his patented "Put the crime right out in the open and claim it is a joke" method of sidestepping his crimes. Once they found the evidence of Russian interference it was really hard to prove intent since Trump "joked" about it on live television. Pay no mind to the Trump Tower Moscow project, definitely no conflict of interest for #45.

    Keep being a sucker if you want, the rest of the country is done with you fools and traitors.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:10PM (9 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:10PM (#1025125)

      >please explain the unprecedented multiple private meetings Trump has had with Putin

      My tin foil hat is shiny side in. The planets aligned. Jet fuel can't melt steal beams. 2+2=5. And the earth is flat. All amount to the same evidence as the Russia Hoax.

      > Once they found the evidence of Russian interference

      I take it you have not been following any of the recent developments into the Russian interference and "Trump Russia collusion" conspiracy? Let me paraphrase the recent findings. Hillary Clinton used Steele to produce the Dossier that was known to the FBI as lies but was still used to spy on Trump campaign through multiple FISA applications where the FBI lied to the judges. The FBI knew they had nothing. They knew Clinton paid for it. The FBI also then knew that people like Flynn did nothing wrong but broke procedure to get him fired by threatening his son.

      Russian interference was a few Facebook ads. Do you want to talk about the interference social media companies are doing now in an effort to change the election?

      What the Mueller investigation did find is that Trump is remarkably clean.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:11PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:11PM (#1025126)

        Clean, that's the word that did it for me +1 Funny

        • (Score: 2, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:36PM (2 children)

          by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:36PM (#1025171)

          It could have been anything in that post really, but yeah "clean" was pretty funny.

          I also enjoyed the repeated lies. That A/C listens to Rush Limbaugh. I would put money on it.

          • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:51PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:51PM (#1025178)

            It'd be money you'd lose.

            I take it you haven't seen anything from Horowitz report, the Flynn case, or the recent Durham investigation declassifications?

            A few years ago, it was acceptable to have some doubt. Now? People need to be jailed. It's not acceptable to have the FBI do what they did.

            • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 23 2020, @01:20AM

              by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday July 23 2020, @01:20AM (#1025247)

              It was (mildly) funny once, but if you keep repeating it you just come across like some sort of flat-earth conspiracy theorist.

      • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:44PM (3 children)

        by Mykl (1112) on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:44PM (#1025176)

        C'mon - even many Trumpers openly admit that Trump is anything but clean. He's been playing dirty his whole life - that's what a lot of his voters love about him!

        Do you really think that it's not at all suspicious that Trump has had multiple meetings with Putin where he has gone well out of his way to ensure that nobody finds out what was discussed? Please mention one other politician that he has done this for. Bonus points if it's an "ally".

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:54PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:54PM (#1025179)

          I think that if anything had been found it, that would have been what he would have been impeached for instead of reaching for out of context statements.

          >Do you really think that it's not at all suspicious that Trump has had multiple meetings with Putin where he has gone well out of his way to ensure that nobody finds out what was discussed?

          No more so than I think it's suspicious that jet fuel can't melt steal beams.

        • (Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Thursday July 23 2020, @12:06AM

          by ChrisMaple (6964) on Thursday July 23 2020, @12:06AM (#1025209)

          Ted Kennedy's treasonous collaboration with the USSR is pretty well established.

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 23 2020, @12:13AM

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 23 2020, @12:13AM (#1025216) Journal

          Do you really think that it's not at all suspicious that Trump has had multiple meetings with Putin where he has gone well out of his way to ensure that nobody finds out what was discussed?

          What's supposed to be suspicious about that?

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 23 2020, @02:06AM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday July 23 2020, @02:06AM (#1025266) Journal

        What the Mueller investigation did find is that Trump is comparably clean.

        You know, compared to all those congress people with 40 years of high living

        --
        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 22 2020, @08:53PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday July 22 2020, @08:53PM (#1025115) Journal
  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 22 2020, @11:04PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 22 2020, @11:04PM (#1025184) Journal

    Fuck the Chinese.

    Just be careful who you pick to rape, you may finish with a piece of meat in your mouth hard to swallow.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @10:09AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @10:09AM (#1025353)

      Dog meat?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @10:52AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @10:52AM (#1025357)

        Dog meat?

        Come to think of, a red hot erect one with a yuuuge tremendous red knot, belonging not to a lapdog but to a wild one.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @02:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @02:34AM (#1025646)

    Mitt Romney made his money selling American jobs to the Chinese - then the rotten bastard wanted us to make him president?

    Mitt Romney is the only R to have the balls to impeach T. He is my hero and certainly would have been a better POTUS.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 24 2020, @02:49AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 24 2020, @02:49AM (#1025648) Journal

      There you have it, folks. AC despises one crooked bastard who loves America, and loves another crooked bastard who hates America.