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Apparantly Chinese TV has live video streams of the embassy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E09BekUH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E09BekUH4 Presumabl
by chvid 6y ago
Apparantly Chinese TV has live video streams of the embassy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E09BekUH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E09BekUH4
Presumably as a payback for the fire brigade showing up at the Houston embassy.
To be honest. This is terrible. The US China-relations risk spiral out of control and idiotic unrestricted nationalism will rule the day.
- ummwhat 6y agoIts a well known dirty secret that consulates of all countries serve double duty as offices for foreign intelligence services. The two possibilities I see are either the US had intelligence of some particularly egregious use of this not-so-secret arrangement or the current administration has just taken an unthinkable sledgehammer to a serious diplomatic norm just to be "tough on china". The fact that biden is polling well in Texas and Trump's whole schtick in his ads is "Biden won't be hard on China", it seems likely to me that this whole thing is a reckless campaign stunt. While the Houston fire department did show up, they respected Chinese sovereignty. In other words they did what a fire Dept is supposed to do for embassy calls, and the calls were not unfounded. The only other case I know of a consulate burning everything was the Soviets at the height of the Cuban missile crisis.
- chvid 6y agoYes. This seems to be an escalation on all channels driven by internal US politics. My worry is that a Trump administration faced with loosing an election is willing to take too risky bets.
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- baybal2 6y ago> To be honest. This is terrible. The US China-relations risk spiral out of control and idiotic unrestricted nationalism will rule the day. > Will ??? from my standpoint, it looks like it already does, and did for the last decade or so,