Local officials in London rejected plans for a massive new Chinese Embassy — a bitter setback for the Chinese government as relations deteriorate between the two countries.
Simon Cheng, an activist from Hong Kong in exile in Britain, speaks at a rally at Parliament Square in London on June 12. Thousands of Hong Kongers in London gathered in support of a pro-democratic social movement in Hong Kong.Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
Simon Cheng, an activist from Hong Kong in exile in Britain, speaks at a rally at Parliament Square in London on June 12. Thousands of Hong Kongers in London gathered in support of a pro-democratic social movement in Hong Kong."We should not compromise and grant an authoritarian state the power to upgrade their facilities to suppress dissenting thoughts in the U.K.," Cheng said after the decision.Councilor Shafi Ahmed insisted the council had made its decision based on the merits.
But in his area of Tower Hamlets, which has a large Muslim population, the community also sympathizes with the persecuted Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in China.The Chinese government, which spent more than $300 million to buy the empty property, did not have an immediate comment on the decision. At a ceremony celebrating the purchase in 2018, Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to London at the time, praised the acquisition as a milestone in Chinese-British relations.
"I hope our two countries will work together to write a new chapter for the China-U.K. 'golden era,'"
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