Chinese 'Super Embassy' Is In Reality CCP State Intelligence In Central London
After multiple warnings from governments around the globe and security experts, the Labour government are more interested in the CCP than national security.
Introduction
The planned relocation and expansion of the Chinese Embassy in London, often dubbed the ‘super-embassy’ has generated significant political, security, and local controversy. The proposal is for a new diplomatic compound at Royal Mint Court in the Tower Hamlets borough, near the Tower of London and London’s financial districts.
The proposed complex is vast, covering approximately 20,000 square meters across 5.5 acres. This size would reportedly make it the largest national diplomatic headquarters in Europe — roughly ten times the size of China’s current embassy.
This site is strategically located between London’s major financial hubs, the City of London and Canary Wharf. Plans include a new Embassy House, a Cultural Exchange building, offices, and accommodations for a large number of staff (including 225 residences).
The complex’s large size could provide ample cover for intelligence personnel and facilities, which would be considered sovereign Chinese diplomatic territory and beyond routine British oversight.
The UK government has faced pressure from both its own lawmakers and the US to reject the plans, with the US even warning that the project could jeopardise intelligence sharing. China maintains that the claims of security risks are groundless and that the embassy will promote mutual understanding and cultural exchange.
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Being in the tech industry, we have our own connections in the UK security agencies and this week we managed to have an off the record conversation about our concerns. We agreed this is an insane decision and a huge risk to the UK.
Lets be honest, this ‘super embassy’ is in reality an extension of the CCP State. They are not friendly to the UK, currently supporting and arming Russia in its direct war in Ukraine and its proxy war with Europe. This embassy location is in the centre of London and they will be monitoring and hacking into the whole of Europe.
As mentioned within commons debates, the Governments own cyber-security experts, Innovate UK, have warned about the threat to the City of London from the embassy. The Wapping telephone and internet exchange is surrounded on three sides by the new embassy, and there are fibre cables carrying highly sensitive information running beneath the site. The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology said yesterday that these matters could be dealt with in the planning process, but the inquiry has ended, so they cannot.
China has a history of cutting cables and infrastructure hacks, including embedding malware capable of disabling infrastructure. Chinese state media have reported that the UK has given assurances to the Chinese that the UK would allow the development, no matter what. This is utter madness.
Furthermore, Sir Richard Dearlove former head of MI6 has publicly expressed his concerns warning that the presence of critical cabling networks nearby the site presented a ‘real problem..especially if they go under the site where the Chinese with impunity can link into them, listen to everything or collect anything and everything going down those communication chains’.
Speaking exclusively with the i Newspaper, he went further to express his concerns that the UK’s most vital national infrastructure, such as hospitals, energy grids, and transport networks, could come under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.
His decision to speak out comes after Sir Richard launched an attack on Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s net zero ideological which he said are a threat to national security because of their reliance on Chinese technology.
“The problem is you’ve got the ideological Ed Miliband pursuing zero carbon without a thought for the impact on national security. It’s so crazy... the whole policy is completely mad. Communist-led state that has, in plain sight, a very clear strategy... They are committed to a policy of global domination by 2049.
The problem is you’ve got the ideological Ed Miliband pursuing zero carbon without a thought for the impact on national security. It’s so crazy... the whole policy is completely mad
Sir Richard Dearlove former head of MI6
You may also recall the staggering discovery of secret kill switches, identified as cellular radios, embedded within power inverters manufactured by Chinese companies and sold to US power generators. This triggered urgent warnings over US national energy security and prompting calls to suspend the deployment of renewable energy generation in the UK from all sides, without any seemingly decisive action by the UK government.
The CCP cannot be trusted. This ‘super embassy’ should not go ahead and if it does, it can only be seen as this government being in coercion with China and being a danger to both UK and European citizens and their security.
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Ian Duncan Smiths comment;
Beijing has a recent history of cutting cables and confirmed infrastructure hacks, including embedding malware capable of disabling all that infrastructure. Surprisingly, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology said on television yesterday that this issue is “in the planning process” and could be managed. Will the Minister correct the record? The planning inquiry has concluded, and no changes at all can be made to the Chinese planning application.
I remind the Minister that the application contains nothing about cabling. Indeed, the Chinese have rejected only two requests by the inquiry—requests to which he referred; they were made by the Government, in the letter from the Foreign and Home Secretaries. That is despite Ministers regularly saying that the letter should “give those concerned comfort.” Rerouting the cables would, we know, cost millions, if the Government are even thinking about that, so I ask the Minister: why did the Government strongly deny, rather than tell this House about, the presence of the cables until the White House actually confirmed it?
Indeed, The Guardian newspaper reported in 2023 that the Chinese would not apply again unless they were given governmental assurances. Can the Minister confirm, or even deny, any of this? Speaking as one of those in the Chamber who have been sanctioned by China, I see this as Project Kowtow. There has been one denial after another, and one betrayal after another. No wonder our allies believe that this Chinese mega-embassy is becoming a walk of shame for the Government.
As the Government know, their own cyber-security experts, Innovate UK, have warned about the threat to the City of London from the embassy. The Wapping telephone and internet exchange is surrounded on three sides by the new embassy, and there are fibre cables carrying highly sensitive information running beneath the site. The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology said yesterday that these matters could be dealt with in the planning process, but the inquiry has ended, so they cannot. If the Government are considering moving the cables, how many millions of pounds of public money will that cost? I recently sent yet another cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, signed by 59 parliamentarians, urging him to pause and reconsider. Since then, the US and Dutch Governments have both sounded the alarm.