{"id":75472,"date":"2025-12-03T03:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/uk-government-delays-china-super-embassy-january"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:37:06","slug":"uk-government-delays-decision-on-chinas-super-embassy-until-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75472","title":{"rendered":"UK government delays decision on China\u2019s super-embassy until January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New date to approve site near Tower Bridge in London aligns with Keir Starmer\u2019s planned visit to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>The government has delayed its decision on whether to approve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/china-mega-embassy-dilemma-starmer\">China\u2019s super-embassy<\/a> in London until January, when Keir Starmer is expected to visit Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers are expected to greenlight the controversial plans after formal submissions by the Home Office and Foreign Office raised no objections on security grounds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/uk-government-delays-china-super-embassy-january\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New date to approve site near Tower Bridge in London aligns with Keir Starmer\u2019s planned visit to BeijingThe government has delayed its decision on whether to approve China\u2019s super-embassy in London until January, when Keir Starmer is expected to visit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155,"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":[41,50,319,1622,215,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-keir-starmer","category-london","category-politics","category-uk-news","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\/75472","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\/4155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472\/revisions\/75478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}