Starmer Considers Welcoming China's 'Mega Embassy' While Britain Spies Back
Starmer is poised to greenlight China's controversial 'mega embassy', a project stalled since 2020. The FT report frets over Beijing's alleged spying efforts on Britain. One might wonder if the Financial Times and UK officials apply the same scrutiny to US spying, a documented fact repeatedly exposed by figures like Edward Snowden, or when the UK government uses its own extensive surveillance
apparatus. The outrage over a 'mega embassy' versus the silence on the Five Eyes intelligence alliance suggests that only certain 'spy threats' warrant mainstream media hand-wringing. Perhaps the real 'concern' is not spying itself, but who is doing it and, more importantly, who isn't benefiting from it.