{"id":61437,"date":"2020-07-24T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/chinas-houston-consulate-was-hub-of-spying-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:22:16","slug":"chinas-houston-consulate-was-hub-of-spying-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/chinas-houston-consulate-was-hub-of-spying-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;China&#8217;s Houston Consulate Was Hub Of Spying&#8221;: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ins_storybody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'China's Houston Consulate Was Hub Of Spying': US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2020-06\/vhtelp1g_mike-pompeo-reuters_625x300_02_June_20.jpg\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" title=\"'China's Houston Consulate Was Hub Of Spying': US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets, said Mike Pompeo(FILE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Washington: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that the Chinese consulate in Houston which Washington has ordered shut was a center for espionage and operations to illegally obtain US companies&#8217; trade secrets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week we closed down China&#8217;s consulate in Houston because it was a hub of spying and intellectual property theft,&#8221; Pompeo said in a California speech on China&#8217;s threat to the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets costing millions of jobs across America&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/chinas-houston-consulate-was-hub-of-spying-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-2267953\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets, said Mike Pompeo(FILE)Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that the Chinese consulate in Houston which Washington has ordered shut was a center for espionage and operations to illegally obtain US companies&#8217; trade secrets.&#8221;This week we closed down China&#8217;s consulate in Houston because&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[92,1960],"class_list":{"0":"post-61437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chinas","9":"tag-houston"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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