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Chinese policemen prepares for duty around a neighborhood sealed off before the official closure of the United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on Monday, July 27, 2020. China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)