China said it had taken over the premises of the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu after ordering the facility be shut in retaliation for being ousted from the Chinese consulate in Houston
Police stand at a cordon near the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, July 27, 2020, as a deadline is due to expire for the departure of the final group of U.S. personnel from the consulate after China ordered its closure in response to a U.S. order for China to shut its consulate in Houston. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
China ordered the closure of the facility on Friday after Washington last week gave China 72 hours to vacate its consulate in Houston, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the world’s two largest economies. State broadcaster CCTV shared a video on its Twitter-like Weibo account, taken by a reporter, of the American flag in front of the consulate in Chengdu being lowered at 6:18 a.m. on Monday.
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