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The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States (simplified Chinese: 中国驻美国大使馆; traditional Chinese: 中國駐美國大使館; pinyin: zhōngguó zhù měiguó dàshǐ guǎn) is the diplomatic mission of the People's Republic of China to the United States, located at Northwest Quadrant, Washington D.C. [1]
On March 18, 1949, the Legation was elevated to an Embassy as J. Rives Childs presented his credentials as the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [ 3 ] In 1984, amid the urban development of the Kingdom's capital, the U.S. Embassy was relocated from Jeddah to Riyadh , with the Jeddah mission becoming a Consulate General.
The PRC has the largest number of active diplomatic posts in the world, [1] including 274 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 176 countries as well as 8 permanent missions to international organizations and two other posts (as of November 2023).
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]).
This is a list of diplomatic missions in the United States. At present, 175 nations maintain diplomatic missions to the United States in the capital, Washington, D.C. Being the seat of the Organization of American States, the city also hosts missions of its member-states, separate from their respective embassies to the United States.
The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C. (Arabic: سفارة المملكة العربية السعودية لدى الولايات المتحدة) is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's main and largest diplomatic mission to the United States.
In September 2018, a U.S. Army pilot died while training a Saudi student pilot on the AH-6i light attack helicopter at the Khashm Al An Airfield in Riyadh. An investigation obtained by Army Times found that the U.S. military was supplying aviators to help staff a Boeing contract that the defense company was not fulfilling. [ 3 ]
An opinion poll conducted in 2022 found that a majority of Saudi citizens (59%) prioritized alignment with the Russia–China bloc rather than United States. [189] Only 41% of Saudi citizens described relations with the US as "important"; behind China (55%), Russia (52%) and European Union (46%).