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The US State Department denied on Wednesday that China’s consul general in New York had been expelled amid a spying row with Beijing, after the state governor asserted that he had been removed.
“There was no expulsion action,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters, adding that the consul Huang Ping’s regularly scheduled diplomatic rotation had happened in August.
Hochul had said she had “been informed that the consul general is no longer in the New York mission.