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Originally Posted by Cathay Dragon 666
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Originally Posted by Cathay Dragon 666
(Post 33783051)
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The PRC consulates to the US are located in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC (Houston is departed).
The US consulates to China are located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Wuhan. |
Originally Posted by moondog
(Post 33783163)
The PRC consulates to the US are located in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC (Houston is departed).
The US consulates to China are located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Wuhan. |
Originally Posted by STS-134
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That would be true if you had said "diplomatic missions" instead of consulates. Technically, the things in Washington DC and and Beijing are embassies, not consulates.
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Originally Posted by moondog
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The place we go to on Wisconsin Avenue in DC is a consulate. The embassy is a much nicer facility in Van Ness. I believe the entire US operation in Beijing now takes place within the embassy.
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Originally Posted by STS-134
(Post 33784594)
Huh, today I learned that the PRC has two chanceries in one city, one embassy and one consulate. I've never heard of that before.
Canada has a High Commission instead of an Embassy in London because the Monarchy of Canada is in personal union as the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, so the Queen cannot properly send an ambassador to herself. Each Commonwealth kingdom (Realm) has legislation to treat High Commissions as embassies, rather than localising the VCDR. |
Originally Posted by STS-134
(Post 33784594)
Huh, today I learned that the PRC has two chanceries in one city, one embassy and one consulate. I've never heard of that before.
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Since we're splitting hairs. Embassy is where the Ambassador works and his relevant staff. They don't handle "consulate affairs" such as offering visas, and other services. For that technically you would need to go to a "Consulate", where the affairs are done.
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Originally Posted by Cathay Dragon 666
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Since we're splitting hairs. Embassy is where the Ambassador works and his relevant staff. They don't handle "consulate affairs" such as offering visas, and other services. For that technically you would need to go to a "Consulate", where the affairs are done.
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To bring this back on topic, I found this news article to be quite interesting. I've now learned that there is a nation of Dominica, that it is not the same as the Dominican Republic, and that their country has managed to sign a visa-free entry agreement with China that is now in effect even as they remain closed off everyone else. Granted, this is still pretty far off from open access (presumably the green code and quarantine requirements remain in place for said visa-free visitors) but maybe this is another step in the right direction.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-to-normality
(or, for those who like to get the news from the horse’s mouth https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Odam0gkEZ-NnH91cSu86XA ) China's top health expert identified two conditions for the country to return to "normality," and maintained that authorities should stick to their Covid Zero policy in battling the omicron variant. Prerequisites for getting back to normal include fatalities from Covid-19 needing to fall to a rate of 0.1% -- similar to influenza's - said Zhong Nanshan, who heads China's Covid task force, according to the state-backed Global Times. That's still a far-off target, as the global death rate stands at over 1.9%. The virus's reproduction rate --a measure of how many people one patient can transmit the virus to - also needs to remain within a range of 1 to 1.5, according to Zhong. |
Dominica has a population of less than 100,000 people and their national gross income is about $7000 USD a year. Suffice to say this is not very useful to many people.
I actually don't know if they're honoring visa-free entry (and if quarantine counts towards those days): for example, Qatari citizens have 30 day visa free entry to China, if you are unlucky and do 28 days of quarantine, do you have to leave immediately afterwards? Anyways, yes, all of the same entry restrictions other than a visa apply: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceqa//eng/zxxx/t1844266.htm |
I wonder if my mom's 10-year visa will be extended by 2+ years. I think I know the answer, but I'm mildly curious.
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Originally Posted by moondog
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I wonder if my mom's 10-year visa will be extended by 2+ years. I think I know the answer, but I'm mildly curious.
I just hope they get to a point more attainable than that Bloomberg post. |
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