Diplomats at the Chinese Consulate in Houston, Texas, have been given 72 hours. On Friday, all activities will cease.
The reason is said to be to protect American intellectual property, such as patents and trademarks, as well as the Americans' private information, the US State Department writes in an email to Reuters.
Relations between China and the United States were improving, but after the corona pandemic, relations between the countries have deteriorated.
- The relationship did not get better today, says SVT's reporter in the USA, Fouad Youcefi.