US open new embassy building in China

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George W Bush will formally inaugurate the new embassy building in China

Randt said, “After more than 15 years of discussions and four and a half years of construction, our magnificent embassy will be officially dedicated by the president,”

The cost of new building is near around $434 million. New embassy building include five buildings designed with traditional Chinese elements. All buildings are enclosed in bullet-proof transparent or opaque glass.

John Holleran the project architect said, “Given the current security environment, it’s expensive to use this amount of glass, because we need to design it in such a way that it resists a car bomb attack and other sorts of hostile actions,”



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