Embassy of the United States, Beijing

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Embassy of the United States, Beijing
Seal of Embassy of the United States Beijing.svg
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Embassy as seen from above
Embassy of the United States, Beijing
Location Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Beijing, China
Address55 Anjialou Road, Chaoyang, Beijing
Coordinates 39°9′53″N116°4′59″E / 39.16472°N 116.08306°E / 39.16472; 116.08306
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns
Website china.usembassy-china.org.cn

The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang, Beijing. [1]

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In addition to Beijing, it covers the municipalities of Tianjin and Chongqing and the provinces of Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Yunnan. [2]

History

Photograph taken inside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing of Ambassador Gary Locke with Chen Guangcheng Gary Locke With Chen Guangcheng May 1, 2012.jpg
Photograph taken inside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing of Ambassador Gary Locke with Chen Guangcheng

The current U.S. Embassy in Beijing was opened and dedicated on August 8, 2008, by U.S. President George W. Bush [3] and is the third largest American diplomatic mission in the world, after the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad and the Embassy of the United States, Yerevan. The U.S. embassy had its origins in 1935 when the legation was upgraded into the embassy in Nanjing. However, the central government of the nationalists was relocated to Taipei in 1949 due to the Chinese Civil War and the embassy was reopened in 1953. On January 1, 1979, the embassy was transferred to Beijing after normalizing relations with the communist government on the mainland. [4]

The 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2), eight story facility incorporates a great deal of free-standing transparent and opaque glass in its design. It is located on a 10-acre (4.0 ha) plot of land. The embassy warehouse is located in the Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone in Shunyi District. [5]

Since the embassy is legally out of reach of the Government of China, it was used as the hiding place of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng after he escaped from house arrest. [6]

Principal officers

Ambassadors

Deputy Chiefs of Mission (DCM)

NamePortraitStart of termEnd of term
J. Stapleton Roy Roy Stapleton.jpg 19791981 [7] [8]
Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Portrait of Chas W. Freeman Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Security Affairs.jpg 19811984 [9]
Herbert E. Horowitz Herbert E Horowitz.png 19841986 [10]
Peter Tomsen Peter Tomsen is envoy to Afghan resistance.png 19861989 [11]
Raymond Burghardt
(acting)		 Burghardt F. Raymond.jpg 19891989 [12] [13]
B. Lynn Pascoe B Lynn Pascoe State.jpg 1989 [12] 1992 [lower-alpha 1]
Scott S. Hallford1992 [lower-alpha 1] 1996 [16]
William C. McCahill, Jr.19961999
G. Eugene Martin19992000 [17]
Michael W. Marine MICHAEL W. MARINE U.S. Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.jpg September 2000June 2004 [18]
David S. Sedney David S Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia.jpg 20042007 [19]
Dan PiccutaMay 2007 [20] January 2009
William Weinstein
(Acting)		January 2009 [21] July 2009 [22] : 74 
Robert GoldbergJuly 2009 [22] : 74 2011 [22] : 5 
Robert S. Wang Robert S Wang, US Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).png January 2011August 2013 [23]
Daniel Kritenbrink Dan Kritenbrink official portrait.jpg July 20132015 [24]
David H. RankJanuary 2016 [25] January 2017
Julie L. Kavanagh
(Acting)		January 2017 [26] [27] June 2017 [26]
Jonathan Fritz
(Acting)		 Jonathan Fritz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for China, Mongolia, and Taiwan Coordination.jpg June 2017 [28] 2018
Robert W. Forden Robert W. Forden Fu De En (Flickr id 34509103426).jpg July 2018October 2020 [29]
William Klein
(Acting)		 William Klein Ke You Wei - Flickr id 19937838073.jpg October 2020 [30] October 2021
Bobby Richey
(Acting)		 Bobby Richey 20160713-FAS-LSC-0233.jpg October 2021 [31]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 State Department records for foreign service list indicates that Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing changed from B. Lynn Pascoe to Scott S. Hallford between Spring 1992 and Fall 1992. [14] [15]

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References

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  4. ↑ "U.S. Embassy Beijing, China - National Museum of American Diplomacy".
  5. ↑ "U.S. Embassy Auction Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine ." () U.S. State Department. "U.S. Embassy Warehouse – No.18 Tianzhu Road, Area A, Beijing Tianzhu Airport Industrial Zone Shunyi, Beijing (See attached map)" and "北京市顺义区天竺空港工业区A区天柱路18号"
  6. ↑ Chin, Josh (April 29, 2012). "China cracks down after Chen escape". wsj.com.
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  9. ↑ "Chas W. Freeman, Jr". American Academy of Diplomacy. Archived from the original on April 23, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
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