Washington:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the Chinese consulate in Houston that Washington had ordered to close was a center of espionage and operations aimed at illegally obtaining trade secrets from US companies.
“This week, we closed the Chinese Consulate in Houston because it was a hub for espionage and theft of intellectual property,” Pompeo said in a California speech on China’s threat to the world.
“China has ripped off our intellectual property and our precious trade secrets that cost millions of jobs across America,” he said.
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