{"id":76016,"date":"2026-01-19T23:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/jan\/19\/video-dispatch-is-china-about-to-get-a-new-mega-embassy-in-london-video"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:36:54","slug":"video-dispatch-is-china-about-to-get-a-new-mega-embassy-in-london-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76016","title":{"rendered":"Video dispatch: is China about to get a new mega-embassy in London? \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decision on China\u2019s controversial mega-embassy in London is imminent, with Chinese officials and British diplomats in Beijing anxiously awaiting the outcome of a planning application that could soon be approved. MPs from across the political spectrum have condemned the proposal, but UK security services say they can contain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/mi5-very-relaxed-proposed-chinese-super-embassy-london-sources-say\">espionage risks posed by the expanded site<\/a>, which sits close to sensitive data cables linking to the City of London<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/jan\/19\/keir-starmer-greenland-tariffs-donald-trump-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/jan\/19\/video-dispatch-is-china-about-to-get-a-new-mega-embassy-in-london-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision on China\u2019s controversial mega-embassy in London is imminent, with Chinese officials and British diplomats in Beijing anxiously awaiting the outcome of a planning application that could soon be approved. MPs from across the political spectrum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5147,"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":[41,50,3489,667,319,215,3412,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-city-of-london","category-espionage","category-foreign-policy","category-london","category-planning-policy","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\/76016","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\/5147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76016\/revisions\/76018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}