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    This from Marco Rubio... I forget what his Trump given name is.

    https://twitter.com/marcorubi...18905412853761

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    what? spies meets in person in a official consulate? and not a in a back alley like they do on The Americans

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    The idea that it would be HK is hysteria. Americans would need a visa just to go deal with consular issues, which would be a massive logistical nightmare for everyone involved.

    Houston is a provincial city on par with Wuhan or Chengdu and all the responses in this tit-for-tat game have been proportional.


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    Spotted in the NYT..


    He said the Houston consul general, the top Chinese official there, and two other diplomats were recently caught having used false identification to escort Chinese travelers to the gate area of a charter flight in George Bush Intercontinental Airport. He described the Houston consulate, which he said “has a history of engaging in subversive behavior,’’ as the “epicenter” of research theft by the Chinese military in the United States, without giving details to support that assertion.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/w...consulate.html

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    And one more ...

    A researcher who lied about her affiliation with a Chinese military university entered the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after being interviewed by the FBI on June 20 about alleged visa fraud and has remained there, according to an FBI assessment in court filings dated July 20.

    Why it matters: Using a diplomatic facility to shelter someone charged with a federal crime could cause serious tension between the U.S. and China, especially as the U.S. is seeking to crack down on Chinese espionage and research theft.

    "It is highly unusual for a Chinese diplomatic post to associate so closely with a suspect in an intellectual property theft-related case," said Minyao Wang, a New York-based lawyer who has worked on IP theft cases related to China.
    https://www.axios.com/san-francisco-...a450b646b.html

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    Maybe she will come out with a long white beard after 7 years. What is the punishment for visa fraud?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elefant&Castle:
    Maybe she will come out with a long white beard after 7 years. What is the punishment for visa fraud?
    I'd have thought in most cases it is deportation and barred from entry?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    This from Marco Rubio... I forget what his Trump given name is.

    https://twitter.com/marcorubi...18905412853761

    "Little Marco"
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    So is the US consulate in Wuhan going to close or not?


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    They probably take more time to think things through than Trump's state department. Just a guess.

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