{"id":214266,"date":"2026-03-16T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214266"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:13:54","slug":"uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214266","title":{"rendered":"UK approves new Chinese \u2018mega embassy\u2019 in London despite security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK goverenment on Tuesday approved\u00a0a 20,000-square-metre plot of land, known as Royal Mint Court, for China&#8217;s\u00a0new embassy in London. The decision has stoked heated controversy, mostly over national security concerns and the signal it could send, that Britain bows to economic pressure from Beijing.\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260120-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK goverenment on Tuesday approved\u00a0a 20,000-square-metre plot of land, known as Royal Mint Court,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214266-uk-approves-new-chinese-mega-embassy-in-london-despite-security-concerns-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}