SCMP: ‘Preposterous’: China’s protests over new US diplomatic rules fall on deaf ears
* Chinese envoys must now give State Department five days’ advance notice of visits to state and local officials or research or educational institutions
* Beijing contends move violates Vienna Convention but is powerless to challenge it, an international law expert says
Chinese officials howled last week when the Trump administration – protesting alleged restrictions American envoys face in China – announced new rules to track the official activities of Chinese diplomats on US soil.
The Chinese embassy in Washington contended that the move was a violation of the Vienna Convention, the United Nations’ 1961 treaty governing diplomatic relations. And claims that US diplomats' movements in China were restricted were “simply not true”, the foreign ministry in Beijing asserted the next day, calling on Washington to withdraw its new rules.
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WNU Editor: The Americans are doing what the Chinese are doing to U.S. diplomats (and others) in China. When I worked in China in the mid-1980s as a diplomat I was always under restrictions. As for today, I have been told that these restrictions are still enforced. China's denials are for its domestic audience, they are not telling the truth.
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