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What's up, everyone? Welcome to the young Turks, Anna Kasperian and John Eiderola with you. It is a beautiful Wednesday outside here in Los Angeles. Hopefully the weather's beautiful where you are. Hopefully you're happy, healthy, safe. I know it's chaotic times in this country. We have a lot of insane stories to fill you in. I'm really excited to go out to the community and I'm really excited to see the news of the world together. I will be

John, John, it's awesome to host with you. How are you? I'm excited to be back on the show with you. Yeah, me too. I missed you last week. Exactly. And yeah, I always love doing the show with you as I've said, like a million times. Before we get to, thankfully, thankfully, before we get to all the news that we have prepared for you guys, let me just remind you of one of the many ways you can help support the show. Asperation is one of our partners. It's a financial institution that we have partnered with.

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So let's start off with China. The Trump administration has ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, further escalating tensions between the United States and China.

This was an abrupt move. And China was essentially told that the officials needed to vacate the premises within 72 hours.

There are about five US consulates in mainland China and one in Hong Kong. And China has responded by saying that if the Trump administration refuses to reverse this decision, they will retaliate possibly by closing down one of the US embassies in China.

Now a spokesperson for the State Department said in a separate statement that China has engaged for years in massive illegal spying and influence operations and that those activities have increased markedly in scale and scope over the past few years.

The allegation here is that the Chinese foreign ministry consisted of spies who were looking to obtain trade secrets when it comes to a coronavirus vaccine.

Obviously, this is a developing story. And I want to be clear about what we know and what I'm speculating on. My speculation is that this is complete BS. And I'll explain why in just a minute.

And I also believe that this escalation with China is an incredibly bad move. I think this is not the way that we want to go.

But the Trump administration, of course, sees this as an opportunity to puff its chest and pretend as if it's doing what it needs to to protect national security.

So I want to go to the Chinese foreign ministry and it's spokesperson who has denied any of these accusations and has accused the administration of violating international law and governing norms. Let's take a look.

On July 21st, the US abruptly demanded that China's consulate General of Houston cease all operations and events.

It is a political provocation unilaterally launched by the US side, which seriously violates international law, basic norms governing international relations, and the bilateral consular agreement between China and the US.

China strongly condemns such an outrageous and unjustified move, which will sabotage China's US relations.

Now, look, I want to be clear about something. I understand the reality of what's going on. And I understand that the Trump administration has some interest in escalating tensions with China because of reelection desires and also possibly funding incentives when it comes to the Pentagon.

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