Britain’s hardening stance on China
The relationship is more steely than golden
IT WILL BE a more fitting home for a rising superpower than the delegation’s current poky premises in Marylebone. Overlooking the Tower of London, the fine Georgian buildings of the old Royal Mint, where Britain’s coins and medals were once struck, are to become the new Chinese embassy. Plans lodged with the local council outline a vast complex designed by David Chipperfield, the architect behind the renovated Neues Museum in Berlin, which includes 230 flats. Announcing the new base in 2018, Liu Xiaoming, the then ambassador, declared it to be a “fresh golden fruit” of a new “golden era” of ties.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “No longer glistening”
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