Contentious proposals for a new Chinese mega-embassy in central London have been the subject of geopolitical wrangling at the highest levels of government, but another party is also demanding to be heard: a band of local residents.
When the Beijing administration bought the site of the old Royal Mint next to the Tower of London in 2018, its aim was to build the largest Chinese diplomatic complex in Europe.
Alongside resplendent Georgian architecture and the ruins of a 14th century Cistercian…
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