{"id":20879,"date":"2020-07-23T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/chinese-researcher-wanted-by-fbi-flees-to-san-francisco-consulate-as-us-china-row-deepens"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T02:12:37","slug":"chinese-researcher-wanted-by-fbi-flees-to-san-francisco-consulate-as-us-china-row-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20879","title":{"rendered":"Chinese researcher wanted by FBI flees to San Francisco consulate as US-China row deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Tang is accused of lying about links to China military, amid tensions between Washington and Beijing after US orders Houston consulate to close<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese researcher charged with lying to the FBI about her military affiliation has taken refuge in China\u2019s San Francisco consulate, according to court documents, further escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The standoff in San Francisco comes at the same time the US ordered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jul\/22\/china-us-ordered-abrupt-closure-houston-consulate-texas\">closure of China\u2019s Houston consulate<\/a>, on grounds of involvement in theft of \u201cAmerican intellectual property and private information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/chinese-researcher-wanted-by-fbi-flees-to-san-francisco-consulate-as-us-china-row-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Tang is accused of lying about links to China military, amid tensions between Washington and Beijing after US orders Houston consulate to closeA Chinese researcher charged with lying to the FBI about her military affiliation has taken refuge in Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions\/20880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}