Prominent U.S. lawmakers wrote to UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Nov. 4, urging the UK to deny the Chinese regime authorization to build a 614,000 square-foot “super embassy” in a strategic location in London.
The proposed embassy would be across the street from the Royal Mint Court and atop critical communication cables that serve London’s financial district, raising security concerns, the lawmakers wrote.
The letter was signed by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Mich.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Rep. Keith Self (R-Penn.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Europe, and Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.), chair of the House Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific….