Die britische Regierung genehmigt die chinesische „Mega-Botschaft“ in London

It might be short-sighted or naive of me but I’m not even that fussed. All countries spy, China spies now out of their current embassy, as do we over there.

Frankly, they’re not openly trying to push for a complete regime change here unlike our ‘special’ ally and their tech barons, who I honestly believe to be a far bigger danger to us and Europe.

It was inevitable. I cannot honestly believe that MI5 has not set up countermeasures in place.

At this point I am more worried about the US presence in the UK, but that’s another story…

So now all their spies will be in one place rather than spread out across several buildings in London. Struggling to see what the big deal is here.

If the UK was smart they would put a bug in every pot plant and light switch in the place. 

Security concerns aside, it’s gonna look gorgeous isn’t it! 

It’s funny how the people against the embassy love talking about China being a global threat to democracy whilst being completely silent on our allies, USA and Israel going on a war path unchecked throughout the world and staging coups to destabilise countries to steal their resources.

Whilst if we’re talking spying/hacking, you have as much to fear if not more from both countries than China if you don’t obey them.

In the end, make no mistake every country is spying/hacking each other. A big building isn’t exactly the crux of it all

It’s unfortunate that Trump has made closer cooperation with China even more necessary, given China’s role in pushing anti-Western propaganda via TikTok, its suppression of dissidents abroad, and the way it has squeezed Hong Kong and will likely squeeze Taiwan next. Europe will be even less inclined to lift a finger for Taiwan if we become more dependent on China.

Not to mention, China is helping Russia brutalize Ukraine.

There seems to be a lot of

*They’re not trying to take over or influence things so no problem and ‚everyone spies anyway’*

History is littered with people someone thought was friends turning out to not be that great down the line. People helped into power turning out to not be great – if there’s one thing we can trust in geopolitics is noting will change from whatever is happening right this second, amirite

Let’s hope China stay our fwends forever and ever then and we all slide to work on a rainbow and they never leverage us or anything or put pressure on us for anything they want

Some people want to ‚disagree‘ with the prevailing thought so much they’ll excuse anything

Pro china bots out in force on this one. we should put Winnie the pooh balloons all around it.

Condolences for my fellow Hong Kong political refugees who thought UK would be safe. I guess I should be preparing for their funerals.

People on here really seem to lack critical thinking skills…

If anyone actually believes that MI5 signed off on this without covertly addressing the cable problem then I worry about the intelligence of the average voter.

Spying is a reality of geopolitics that all parties involved are aware of and much of the public messaging from both governments on this is theatre. If there was actually a threat from this Embassy it wouldn’t be approved

Since it’s so close to Tower of London. We should name it Tower of Beijing.

maybe i’m naive but honestly i’m fine with this compared to the our current „allies“ over in the land of guns

Considering Starmer’s increasingly authoritarianism, maybe he’s looking to the CCP for pointers about a Internet ‚Great Firewall‘ like China has? Or he’s looking to increase the surveillance of the general population?

At least we’ll know where to look if Chinese people in England that have been critical of the CCP end up ‚disappearing‘. Keir’s nothing but a fucking coward.

This post is either mega astroturfed with pro china guff or Redditors are really that brainfried about Trump