BEIJING (Bloomberg): Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin said Beijing would likely respond to the forced closure of its Houston consulate with moves that inflict more pain on the United States than closing its operation in Wuhan -- including potential cuts to its larger Hong Kong mission.
"The US has over 1,000 staff at the Hong Kong consulate," Hu, the editor of the Communist Party newspaper, wrote in a post on Chinese social media on Thursday (July 23).
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