{"id":21014,"date":"2020-07-27T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/crowds-wave-chinese-flags-and-take-selfies-as-us-consulate-closes-in-chengdu"},"modified":"2020-07-27T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:34:18","slug":"crowds-wave-chinese-flags-and-take-selfies-as-us-consulate-closes-in-chengdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21014","title":{"rendered":"Flag lowered at US consulate in Chengdu as China takes control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troops posted outside building as Chinese authorities take over diplomatic mission <\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have taken over the US consulate general in Chengdu, marking the diplomatic mission\u2019s official closure and a new low point in ties between the world\u2019s largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>At dawn on Monday, the American flag outside the consulate was lowered while police held back crowds that had gathered over the weekend to watch. At 10am, the mission was closed, according to China\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/crowds-wave-chinese-flags-and-take-selfies-as-us-consulate-closes-in-chengdu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops posted outside building as Chinese authorities take over diplomatic mission Chinese authorities have taken over the US consulate general in Chengdu, marking the diplomatic mission\u2019s official closure and a new low point in ties between the world\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-21014","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\/21014","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions\/21048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}