China wants to build a ‘super embassy’ in London next to critical communication cables UK intelligence services has warned against allowing China to build their new ‘super embassy’ next to critical communication cables.
The new super embassy would be just four miles away from the US’s own ‘super embassy’ in Nine Elms, which they opened in 2018.
And in a joint letter to Tower Hamlet’s Planning Inspectorate, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stressed the ‘importance of countries having functioning diplomatic premises in each other’s capitals’ and said the Met Police has withdrawn their objections.
China has proposed to turn the former Royal Mint building in Tower Hamlets into Europe’s largest embassy.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said she will be making the final decision in October after Beijing resubmitted their proposal without any major changed following Labour’s election win last year, the FT reports.
