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The White House has taken care of the British government that China can build a large message in London, from which the security officers would therefore consider a risk of a sensitive communication infrastructure for the city.
“The United States is deeply concerned about offering China with potential access to the sensitive communication of one of our closest allies,” said a high -ranking US official.
China has asked for permission to build a new message in London on the Royal Mint Court on the edge of the city of London, the financial district of the British capital. The 20,000 m² connection would be more than the 20 -fold of the size of Beijing’s current message in Marylebone and would be Beijing’s largest message in Europe.
Some security officers in the United States and Great Britain have also made a sensitive center of critical communication cables due to the proximity of the location.
Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the British secret service, told the I -Paper on Sunday that the presence of cable networks near the proposed message had a “real problem” because Chinese secret services would be able to open up sensitive communication lines “with impunity”.
The American official said Washington expected that all decisions in the national security interests of the United States and British security would be made, and “after a thorough reduction, as approved and approved by professionals of the opposite -level”.
The United Kingdom belongs to the five-eye intelligence and collection network, which also includes the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, what does British communication for Washington represent threats for British communication.
The intervention of the White House marks the second known example of the Trump administration, which pronounces concerns about China in Great Britain. At the beginning of this year, President Donald Trump gave his tacit approval for a deal that was signed in Great Britain with Mauritius because of the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. This despite the perceived Chinese security threats for Diego Garcia, an atoll on the islands on which the USA and Great Britain have a common military base. Despite the concerns that some of his officials had expressed, he approved the deal.
In the UK, the conservative opposition party asked the Labor government to reject the plan.
Chris Philp, Shadow Minister of the Interior, said that the location that Beijing bought 2018 was a “security risk” for the government, in view of his proximity to three data centers near Canary Wharf and the Square Mile of the city.
“It is very likely that the Chinese would use it to organize espionage activities. We see that the Chinese government breaks down against dissident, carry out secret police stations in Great Britain and even rely on the head fountains on the heads of dissidents. We should not give permission for this,” he said on Sunday.
Peter Kyle, the secretary for science and technology, said that if people raised security issues, this would be treated in the planning process.
The plan was rejected by the local Tower Hamlets Borough Council in 2022 for security reasons and due to the potential effects on the residents. Last year it was called by Angela Rayner, the Minister of Housing.
The The project has now been revived After personal pressure from President Xi Jinping from China in a phone call with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer. The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also addressed the problem with Foreign Minister David Lammy this year.
Some British civil servants believe that the approval of the message in Great Britain-China relationships that have confiscated control over a Chinese steel mill in northeastern England since the British government.
The British embassy in Washington rejected a statement. US intervention was first reported by the Sunday Times of London.
