Epstein Secrets

e Hong Kong consulate, that would be then thrusting this dispute into what's already very serious impasse of course with the future of Hong Kong and Hong Kong's autonomy. So I think that would be the most escalatory move in terms of closing the consulate." The Wall Street Journal <https://www.wsj.corn/artic

ton/houston-consulate-one-of-worst- offenders-in-chinese-espionage-say-u-s-officials-idUSKCN24P1XT> (7/24, Brunnstrom, Psaledakis) reports a "senior State Department official linked espionage activity at the Houston consulate to China's pursuit of research into a vaccine for the new coronavirus," and "said China

e Hong Kong consulate, that would be then thrusting this dispute into what's already very serious impasse of course with the future of Hong Kong and Hong Kong's autonomy. So I think that would be the most escalatory move in terms of closing the consulate." The Wall Street Journal (7/24, Board, Subscription

of the People's Liberation Army, China's military, while conducting research in the U.S." Reuters (7/24, Brunnstrom, Psaledakis) reports a "senior State Department official linked espionage activity at the Houston consulate to China's pursuit of research into a vaccine for the new coronavirus," and "said China

ng province, Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea." Secretary of State Pompeo released a statement reading, "Beijing's unrelenting assault against Hong Kong's democratic processes has gutted its Legislative Council, rendering the body a rubber stamp devoid of meaningful opposition." The Wall Street Journal

rging China with increasingly flouting international sanctions on North Korea, no longer bothering to try to obscure some of the efforts. One senior State Department official said, "It is not particularly disguised or hidden. The fact that China is making it easier on them makes it a much more reliable revenue st

le on the island to be more easily extradited to mainland China. That legislation has been tabled, but it's led to a broader movement to challenge Hong Kong's diminished autonomy and to call for the resignation of the island's China-backed leader. President Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Ji

uzzle its criticisms of Beijing's attacks on Hong Kong's already limited freedoms while trade talks are ongoing. That reportedly led Mike Pompeo's State Department to nix a planned speech by the outgoing U.S. consul general for Hong Kong that would have offered support for the protest movement, despite Pompeo

ple on the island to be more easily extradited to mainland China. That legislation has been tabled, but it's led to a broader movement to challenge Hong Kong's diminished autonomy and to call for the resignation of the island's China-backed leader. President Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Ji

muzzle its criticisms of Beijing's attacks on Hong Kong's already limited freedoms while trade talks are ongoing. That reportedly led Mike Pompeo's State Department to nix a planned speech by the outgoing U.S. consul general for Hong Kong that would have offered support for the protest movement, despite Pompeo'

sible role in the negotiations, `but I think Nick, he has other distractions." Record numbers vote in Hong Kong elections THE NEW WORLD ORDER: -- Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties swept aside the pro- Beijing establishment during local council elections in a significant endorsement of the protest movement

justification ... Emails show Vought and OMB staffers arguing that withholding aid was legal, while officials at the National Security Council and State Department protested. OMB lawyers said that it was legal to withhold the aid, as long as they deemed it a 'temporary' hold ... "Mulvaney's request for inform

e Hong Kong consulate, that would be then thrusting this dispute into what's already very serious impasse of course with the future of Hong Kong and Hong Kong's autonomy. So I think that would be the most escalatory move in terms of closing the consulate." The Wall Street Journal (7/24, Board, Subscription

of the People's Liberation Army, China's military, while conducting research in the U.S." Reuters (7/24, Brunnstrom, Psaledakis) reports a "senior State Department official linked espionage activity at the Houston consulate to China's pursuit of research into a vaccine for the new coronavirus," and "said China

o penetrate its Level-3 secrets without great success. Yet it was precisely these secrets that Mr. Snowden changed jobs to steal. In an interview in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on June 15, 2013, he said he sought to work on a Booz Allen contract at the CIA, even at a cut in pay, because it gave him a

23. The “Consul General- Hong Kong confirmed that Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s passport was revoked June 22,” according to the State Department’s senior watch officer, as reported by ABC news on June 23, 2013. Mr. Snowden could not have been unaware of the government’s pursuit of him, since th