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The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, by U.S. President George W. Bush [3] and is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad and the Embassy of the United States, Yerevan. The U.S. embassy had its origins in 1935 when the legation was ...
The following is a list of the consular districts of the United States. Such districts are designated by the Secretary of State as per Section 312(c) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3952(c)).
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
Host city Sending country Mission Year closed Ref. Beijing Lithuania: Embassy 2021 [29] Marshall Islands: Embassy 1998 Chengdu Czechia: Consulate-General 2022 [30] New Zealand: Consulate-General 2020 [31] Sri Lanka: Consulate 2016 [32] United States: Consulate-General: 2020 [33] [34] Chongqing Denmark: Consulate-General 2021 [35] Ethiopia ...
In 1976, the Chief of the Liaison Office was promoted to the rank of ambassador. In December 1978, the United States severed official relations with the Republic of China and in January 1979, established formal relations with the People's Republic of China. The United States Liaison Office in Beijing was upgraded to an embassy on March 1, 1979.
Similar gestures were done in China in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang, along with the U.S. embassy in Beijing. [1] The Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau, represents the United States in Hong Kong and Macau. [2] It has been located at 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, since the late 1950s ...
The United States chose Shanghai and Guangzhou (China chose San Francisco and Houston). On August 31, 1979, almost 30 years to the day that Consulate Canton had been closed, Vice-president Walter Mondale unveiled the seal for the new U.S. Consulate Guangzhou on the 11th floor of the Dongfang Hotel at 120 Liu Hua Road.
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