{"id":75273,"date":"2025-11-21T03:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/mi5-very-relaxed-proposed-chinese-super-embassy-london-sources-say"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:34:01","slug":"mi5-very-relaxed-about-proposed-chinese-super-embassy-in-london-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75273","title":{"rendered":"MI5 \u2018very relaxed\u2019 about proposed Chinese super-embassy in London, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Security Service officers told Commons speaker in private meeting they can tackle espionage risks <\/p>\n<p>MI5 officers told the House of Commons speaker at a private meeting that they can tackle the risks of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/china-mega-embassy-dilemma-starmer\">proposed Chinese super-embassy<\/a> in London, opening the door to its approval.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian understands that in a meeting held with Lindsay Hoyle in the summer, senior figures from the Security Service indicated they were \u201cvery relaxed\u201d about the prospect of a 20,000 sq metre embassy being constructed at Royal Mint Court near Tower Bridge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/mi5-very-relaxed-proposed-chinese-super-embassy-london-sources-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Security Service officers told Commons speaker in private meeting they can tackle espionage risks MI5 officers told the House of Commons speaker at a private meeting that they can tackle the risks of a proposed Chinese super-embassy in London, o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5066,"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":[50,319,215,1345,4,52,476,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-london","category-mi5","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-uk-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75273","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\/5066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75273\/revisions\/75274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}