Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter report that Gregory May, the new US Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau, will arrive in Hong Kong this month.
The Hong Kong South China Morning Post last Saturday (September 3) quoted people familiar with the personnel arrangement that Mei Rurui's appointment procedure for the highest diplomat in the United States in Hong Kong was approaching.
A person familiar with the U.S. State Department's thinking said that the United States decided to send a professional diplomat who had many years of experience in Greater China, partly because of the intensive relationship between Washington and Hong Kong and Beijing officials.
Beijing implemented the Hong Kong National Security Law in Hong Kong in 2020. Huafu followed the sanctions on Hong Kong officials, which reduced US -Hong Kong relations to freezing.
According to the information on the personal page of the official website of the State Department and the personal page of Mei Rurui, Mei Ruui devoted himself to diplomatic work in 2000. He has later been in the US Consulate General in Guangzhou and the United States in Beijing in Beijing.Hua Embassy.From August 2016 to July 2019, he served as Consul General in Shenyang, and then served as the "second leader" of the US Embassy in Mongolia.
Before becoming a diplomat, Mei Rurui served as a Chinese research assistant director and research assistant at the China Foreign Policy Think Tank (Nixon Center).From 1993 to 1996, Mei Rurui served as a reporter at the Taipei International Community English Radio, and was also a correspondent of News Weekly.
