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The Chinese government will be permitted to open a consulate in Los Angeles in an arrangement that will make it the first Communist Bloc country to maintain a diplomatic presence in Southern California, the State Department has announced.
No site or opening date has been fixed for the consulate, which will become Beijing's fifth in the United States. As part of the reciprocal agreement, the United States has been granted the right to open its own fifth consulate, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan,...