- The Chinese consulate closure and Pompeo's rhetoric could stoke war, and no one objects | We are doddering toward conflict with a fellow nuclear power. How can our ruling class be so seemingly oblivious to the danger, or so nonchalant about the risk? https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/chinese-consulate-closure-pompeo-s-rhetoric-could-stoke-conflict-no-ncna1234862 23 comments politics