The White House has expressed concern to the UK government over allowing China to build a large embassy in London that security officials believe would pose a risk to sensitive communications infrastructure serving the City.
“The United States is deeply concerned about providing China with potential access to the sensitive communications of one of our closest allies,” said a senior US official.
China has requested permission to build a new embassy in London at Royal Mint Court on the edge of the City of London, the financial district of the UK capital. The 20,000 sq m compound would be more than 20 times the size of Beijing’s current embassy in Marylebone and would be Beijing’s biggest embassy in Europe.
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