China had threatened to retaliate if the United States did not withdraw its decision.
Beijing, China:
China said on Friday it had revoked the license of the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, in retaliation for the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston earlier this week.
The move is a “legitimate and necessary response to unreasonable US actions,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
“The current situation in Sino-US relations is not what China wants to see, and the United States is responsible for all of this,” the statement said.
Tensions have escalated on several fronts between the world‘s two largest economies, deteriorating further after Washington ordered the Houston consulate to close on Tuesday within 72 hours.
China had threatened to retaliate if the United States did not withdraw its decision.
The Chengdu Consulate was established in 1985 and has around 200 staff and around 150 locally recruited Chinese staff, according to its website.
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