{"id":74802,"date":"2025-10-17T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/17\/china-accuses-uk-of-bad-faith-over-delayed-embassy-project"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:56:27","slug":"china-accuses-uk-of-bad-faith-over-delayed-embassy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74802","title":{"rendered":"China threatens UK with \u2018consequences\u2019 over delayed London mega embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic tensions escalate amid rows over planning hold-ups and collapse of spying trial<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Britain and China have escalated after Beijing criticised further delays to a planning decision on its proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/china-mega-embassy-dilemma-starmer\">\u201cmega embassy\u201d<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs expressed \u201cgrave concern and strong dissatisfaction\u201d after Steve Reed, the housing secretary, pushed back his final decision on the proposal until 10 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/17\/china-accuses-uk-of-bad-faith-over-delayed-embassy-project\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic tensions escalate amid rows over planning hold-ups and collapse of spying trialTensions between Britain and China have escalated after Beijing criticised further delays to a planning decision on its proposed \u201cmega embassy\u201d in London.China\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,319,215,3412,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-london","category-planning-policy","category-politics","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74802\/revisions\/74812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}