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Photograph taken inside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing of Ambassador Gary Locke with Chen Guangcheng. 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.
It is America's second purpose-built diplomatic facility in China, following the completion of the Beijing Embassy in 2008. The State Department spent $267 million on the project, [5] as part of a multi-year, $1.5 billion building plan for the American missions in China. [1]
The first American Consulate in Wuhan was opened in April 1861, one month after Hankow became one of China's treaty ports. The old consulate built in 1905 was previously JK Panoff's Residence, located on the corner of the Bund with Station Road in the Hankow Russian Concession. It is a red baroque-style keep in brick and concrete structure.
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 People's Republic of China, excluding Hong Kong and Macau. Due to the One-China policy , the PRC is recognized by 179 out of 193 United Nations member states and the State of Palestine as its sovereignty is disputed by the Republic of China .
Honduras opened an embassy in China on Sunday, Chinese state media reported, after the Central American nation cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan earlier this year. The embassy in Beijing was ...
At the time, the United States had several other Consulates in Northeast China, including in Harbin and Dalian. [ citation needed ] These appear to have been closed by World War II. The Shenyang Consulate operated for most of the war and closed in 1949 after the new Chinese Communist Party authorities had imprisoned the remaining consulate ...
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