Dutch sound alarm on Chinese super-embassy in London

For years, Steerpike has been warning about the dangers of a new Chinese ‘super-embassy’ being built in Tower Hamlets. Located on the site of Britain’s old Royal Mint, there are plans to build Beijing’s largest overseas outpost, sitting opposite the Tower of London. Local residents, many of whom are Uighur Muslim, are viscerally opposed, while the Met has major security concerns about the site becoming a magnet for anti-China protests too. Quelle surprise…

Having ignored all domestic opposition to this plan, pig-headed officials might now be willing to take advice from candid friends from overseas. This weekend, it was the Americans sounding the alarm in the Sunday Times, amid fears that the building could effectively become a nest of spies in the heart of London. And today, Mr S can bring warnings from across the English Channel. For it seems the Dutch – British allies since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 – are up in arms now too.