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The United States opened a consulate in Sydney in 1836, with other countries later following including Switzerland (1855), Germany (1879) and Japan (1896, in Townsville). The diplomatic corps was first established in Canberra in 1936 when the United Kingdom appointed its first High Commissioner to Australia. [ 1 ]
The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia is the embassy of China in Canberra, Australia. The Nationalist Chinese Embassy had existed in Canberra since sometime before 1951. [ 1 ]
In 2015, China opened its largest diplomatic mission in Pakistan. [4] Current missions. Africa. Host country Host city Mission ... Sydney: Consulate General
After the transfer of sovereignty to China in 1997, they were renamed consulates-general, [8] with the last commissioner becoming consul-general. [9] However, the Australian commission had been renamed the consulate-general in 1986.
China: Shenyang: Consulate-General 2024 Indonesia: Kupang: Consulate 1999 [111] Medan: Consulate Unknown [112] Japan: Fukuoka: Consulate-General 2019 [113] Sapporo:
In late September, Chen contended that the man in charge of China's spy network continued to operate out of the consulate-general in Sydney. As reported by The Bulletin, this individual works independently of the consulate, complete with his own budget. Chen did not name this alleged spymaster.
The ongoing primacy of the Sydney community was recognised by the relocation of China's consul-general from Melbourne to Sydney in 1928. Sydney's Chinese population held more or less steady, but as the rest of the nation's Chinese communities shrank in size, there was a general sense of contraction.
Australia's first diplomatic representative in China was Vivian Gordon Bowden, who in 1935 was appointed as a trade commissioner based in Shanghai. [2] The establishment of trade commissions in several Asian countries was an initiative of the Lyons government first announced in 1933, where previously Australian interests had been represented by the United Kingdom. [3]