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From aggressor to appeaser, China caught out in consulate reprisal game – Sydney Morning Herald
China had 72 hours to decide how it would react. It used up nearly 48 in the hope of a diplomatic reversal that never came.
After years of cyber warfare, intellectual property theft, subversive foreign interference and human rights transgressions at home, Beijing was caught by surprise.
A diplomatic conflict that had been percolating away for months, suddenly and viscerally vaulted into the real world after the US ordered the shutdown of China’s consulate in Houston on Wednesday evening, Australian time.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin. Credit:AP
The US claimed the Chinese mission had illegally t…
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