People are burning documents at the Chinese consulate in Houston, as Beijing says the US abruptly gave it 72 hours to shut it down

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• People were seen burning documents at the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, and fire services were called to the scene.
• Police told multiple outlets that people were burning documents in what appeared to be open trash cans. It is not clear what those documents were.
• It came as China said the US ordered the consulate to be closed in an "unprecedented escalation." Chinese state media reported that the US had given China 72 hours to close it.
• The State Department said the closure was ordered "to protect American intellectual property and American's private information."
• China painted the decision in light of strained US-China relations, claiming the US "has repeatedly stigmatized China," and vowed to retaliate if the US does not reverse its order.
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People are burning documents at the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, after China said that the US gave it 72 hours to close.

Local outlet ABC 13 reported early Wednesday morning that trash cans full of documents were being burned in the consulate's courtyard.

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