Reporter : Luo Tingting
Editor : Zhu Xinrui
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Direct Translation
Image : The US government forced the Chinese Consulate General in Houston to close. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images)
The U.S. government forcibly closed the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, highlighting a major escalation of tensions between the United States and China. At the same time, the CCP consulate in San Francisco was also accused by the U.S. Department of Justice, accusing it of harboring a CCP female military doctor wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). U.S. lawmakers criticized the Chinese consulate as the spying center of the Chinese Communist Party in the United States. US President Trump has recently stated that he does not rule out closing more Chinese consulates.
The US news website "Axios" reported that the day before the US government ordered the closure of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, the US Department of Justice accused a scientific researcher who had concealed the identity of the Chinese Communist Party’s military after being interviewed by the FBI for visa fraud and hiding in the Chinese Communist Party Consulate of San Francisco.
According to documents submitted by federal prosecutors in the Federal Court for the Northern District of California on July 20, Juan Tang (transliteration) was engaged in research at the University of California, Davis on a J-1 visiting scholar visa, and she concealed it when applying for a visa her relationship with the Chinese military.
According to the report, on June 20, the FBI searched Tang Juan's home and found that she was working at the Chinese Communist Air Force Military Medical University and was an active soldier. Tang Juan was questioned by the FBI that day. On June 26, Tang Juan was charged with visa fraud.
Federal prosecutors stated that Tang Juan entered the CCP consulate in San Francisco one day after being searched and questioned. According to FBI's assessment, Tang Juan is still there.
Prosecutors criticized the Chinese consulate in San Francisco for providing a potential safe haven for Tang Juan, a female military doctor who tried to evade prosecution.
The report pointed out that if the FBI’s assessment is correct, the San Francisco consulate’s decision to asylum fugitives associated with the Chinese military is a highly provocative act and violates basic diplomatic practices.
According to a report by the Voice of America, the Tang Juan case is related to another Shen Song who also concealed the identity of the CCP military and was accused of visa fraud.
The court document submitted by the federal prosecutor shows that Song Chen was a J-1 visiting scholar at Stanford University. The federal prosecutor accused her of concealing her existing relationship with the Chinese Communist Air Force General Hospital and the Fourth Military Medical University. Arrested over the weekend.
In this document proposing to detain the defendant, the prosecutor mentioned other similar cases in which the Communist Army scientific researchers concealed their true identity, including the Tang Juan case.
At present, the U.S. closure of the Chinese Communist Consulate in Houston is continuing to ferment, highlighting a major escalation of tensions between the United States and China. This incident of the CCP consulate in San Francisco harboring female military doctors quickly aroused public attention.
On July 21, the United States ordered the Chinese Consulate in Houston to close by the afternoon of the 24th, and consulate personnel burned confidential documents overnight. The CCP reacted fiercely and threatened to take retaliatory measures.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio pointed out in a tweet on the 22nd that the Chinese Consulate General in Houston is not a diplomatic institution. It is a huge spy center and the central node of the Communist Party’s huge spy network and influence operations in the United States. It should have been closed long ago.
The U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, who was visiting Denmark, also said that the closure of the Houston Consulate was due to the CCP’s long-term theft of intellectual property rights. “Not only the intellectual property rights in the United States have been stolen, but intellectual property rights in Europe are the same. The good jobs of hard-working workers across Europe and the United States were stolen by the CCP."
Pompeo said, "President Trump said, enough! We will not allow this to happen again."
On the same day that the Chinese consulate was closed, the U.S. Department of Justice sued two Chinese hackers, accusing them of stealing intellectual property and trade secrets from the U.S. and other countries in the world under the direction of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, including those from the U.S. who were studying Chinese virus vaccine Results.
President Trump stated at the White House press conference on the 22nd that he would not rule out closing more Chinese consulates. "This is always possible."
In addition to the consulates in Houston and San Francisco, the CCP has five other diplomatic facilities in the United States: the embassy in Washington, the mission to the United Nations in New York, and the consulates in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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