Philp slams China's plans for 'super-embassy' in London

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says China's plans to build a new 'super-embassy' in London "should not be allowed to go ahead", adding it will "clearly be used as a centre for espionage activity". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This Chinese embassy should not be allowed to go ahead at all.

00:03It will clearly be used as a centre for espionage activity,

00:07probably on a pan-European basis.

00:10The Chinese government have been pursuing Hong Kong dissidents in the UK.

00:15They've been running secret Chinese police stations here.

00:17They've even put a bounty on the head of some Hong Kong dissidents.

00:21We should not be facilitating this enormous embassy.

00:24The Chinese government has also engaged in industrial espionage

00:28on an enormous scale, taking intellectual property

00:30both from businesses and from universities.

00:34And this will simply make it easier for the Chinese government

00:36to pursue those activities.

00:38So I think actually Tower Hamlet's council in the past got it right

00:42when they refused this application

00:44and the government should now turn this down.

00:47I'm concerned that Keir Starmer is more interested in kowtowing to the Chinese

00:52to try and sort out his economic difficulties,

00:55but he should not be doing that at the expense of national security.

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