China on Friday ordered US to shut down its consulate in the south western city of Chengdu.The move is a diplomatic tit-for-tat move by the Chinese in retaliation to US ordering to close Chinese mission in Houston.
“The current situation in China-US relations is not what China desires to see, and the US is responsible for all this,”said Chinese foreign ministry in a statement.The statement agreed that the decision to close US mission in Chengdu as a “legitimate and necessary response to unreasonable measure by the US”.
In 2013, China demanded the US provide an explanation for a spying programme after news reports said a top-secret map leaked by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden showed US surveillance facilities at embassies and consulates worldwide .The US consulate at Chengdu was one among them.
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