The US Congress Committee warns of a new Chinese embassy in London

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A committee of the US representative house has the plan of China’s plan to build a huge message in London, grounded the alarm and explains that the “significant security concerns” project caused the British financial services industry.

“The Mega Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Great Britain accuses considerable security concerns: from interference and surveillance to risks for sensitive infrastructures such as London’s financial services”, the House China Committee wrote on x.

“We have to work to tackle this topic urgently and to work with our allies to protect national security,” added the committee, which John Moolenaar, a Republican congress member from Michigan.

China I would like to build its greatest diplomatic complex in Europe near the London tower and replace its message in Marylebone in the center of London. However, the project has triggered the concern of residents and some politicians who have warned of the potential for increased espionage.

President Xi Jinping addressed the question of the new building with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer last year. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also discussed the topic – and a separate plan in Great Britain to build a new message in Beijing – with British Foreign Minister David Lammy in London last week, according to the people who were informed about the diplomatic discussions.

British security officers, British security officers, in recent years Especially Mi5According to the presumably Chinese espionage, have become loud.

The Tower Hamlets Local Authority, which is responsible for the historical area of ​​the Royal Mint Court, refused to partly approved the project last year for security reasons. The British Housing Minister Angela Rayner later took control of the planning decision and will make the final decision.

The Metropolitan Police previously spoke the resistance to the proposed plans that anti-China protests would influence traffic, but later withdrew their objections.

In January, Lammy and the British Interior Minister Yvette Cooper expressed support for the project and said that the countries should have diplomatic presences.

The intervention followed a trip to China by the British Chancellor Rachel Reeves in order to increase the economic ties. The trip was the first visit to China by a British Chancellor since 2017 and came when the government of Starer diplomatically entered Beijing.

The concerns characterized in Washington from House China Committee come when the Trump administration discusses whether they should approved a deal between Great Britain and Mauritius who has it Implications for a critical common US-UK military base On Diego Garcia, one of the islands in the Chagos archipelago.

The United States is concerned about China’s potential to spy on Diego Garcia, which is an important transit point for atom -u boats and bombers.