{"id":262577,"date":"2020-07-23T02:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T06:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262577"},"modified":"2020-07-23T02:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T06:37:37","slug":"china-slams-unprecedented-us-move-on-houston-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/23\/china-slams-unprecedented-us-move-on-houston-consulate\/","title":{"rendered":"China slams \u2018unprecedented\u2019 US move on Houston consulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32590\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32590 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_88489804-900x597.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urging Washington \u201cto immediately correct its mistakes,\u201d Wenbin told a press conference in Beijing: \u201cOtherwise, China will make a legitimate and necessary response.\u201d (Shutterstock Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 China on Wednesday slammed the US for asking Beijing to close its consulate in Houston in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Accusing the US of \u201cunilateral political provocation,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that the US push to have the Houston consulate closed was \u201ca grave violation of international law and basic norms governing international relations,\u201d Chinese daily Global Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Urging Washington \u201cto immediately correct its mistakes,\u201d Wenbin told a press conference in Beijing: \u201cOtherwise, China will make a legitimate and necessary response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US move is a \u201cgrave violation\u201d of related provisions of the China-US Consular Treaty, and a \u201cdeliberate attempt to undermine China-US relations,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the US action \u201can unprecedented escalation of its moves against China,\u201d Wenbin said: \u201cFor some time, the US has been attacking and launching smear campaigns against China, and unreasonably made trouble for staff members at Chinese consulates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wenbin said the US Embassy in China \u201coften publishes articles [on its website] openly attacking China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear who is interfering in other countries&#8217; internal affairs and who is infiltrating and inciting confrontations,\u201d he added.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 China on Wednesday slammed the US for asking Beijing to close its consulate in Houston in the state of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":32590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262578,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262577\/revisions\/262578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}