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US request to close Chinese consulate ‘provocative’
    2020-07-24  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE U.S. Government’s request to close the Chinese Consulate General in Houston is “a political provocation,” and “an outrageous and unjustified move which sabotages China-U.S. relations,” said the Chinese embassy in the United States on Wednesday.

“The U.S. abruptly demanded that the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston cease all operations and events within a time limit. It is a political provocation unilaterally launched by the U.S. side, which seriously violates international law, basic norms governing international relations and the bilateral consular agreement between China and the U.S.,” said the embassy in a statement.

“China strongly condemns and firmly opposes such an outrageous and unjustified move which sabotages China-U.S. relations,” the embassy said, noting that China is committed to the principle of non-interference in other countries’ domestic affairs.

Multiple international experts also called the move a unilateral U.S. political provocation, which seriously violates international law and basic norms governing international relations, and undermines China-U.S. relations.

Hussein Ismail, a researcher at Egypt State Information Service, said that the U.S. move is a unilateral political provocation, a serious violation of international law and basic norms governing international relations, a reflection of the arrogance of the U.S. Government and a destruction of China-U.S. relations.

Ali Sarwar Naqvi, executive director at the Islamabad-based Center for International Strategic Studies in Pakistan, said the U.S. move has shocked the world because people got scared of the direction in which the United States is taking the world.

Such a condemnable and immature decision is totally against the diplomatic norms and a sheer violation of the Vienna Convention, he added.

(Xinhua)

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