{"id":20932,"date":"2020-07-24T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/china-orders-us-consulate-in-chengdu-to-close-as-tensions-rise"},"modified":"2020-07-24T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T10:00:43","slug":"china-orders-us-consulate-in-chengdu-to-close-as-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20932","title":{"rendered":"China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move by Beijing comes in response to the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston earlier this week and amid worsening relations between the countries<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has ordered the closure of a US consulate in south-western China, in a move that escalates tensions between the two countries to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs said it had ordered the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, to cease all operations. Authorities notified the US of China\u2019s decision to revoke its consent for the consulate to operate, according to a notice on the ministry\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/china-orders-us-consulate-in-chengdu-to-close-as-tensions-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move by Beijing comes in response to the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston earlier this week and amid worsening relations between the countriesBeijing has ordered the closure of a US consulate in south-western China, in a move that escalates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/20932","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions\/20951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}