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China is not the UK's ally, so they should not act like they are. Maybe Moscow or Pyongyang will let the build a mega-embassy.
So if they're allies, it's fine to spy? You're kinda proving the point I made earlier.
And why so desperate that you have to use your other accounts to manipulate the votes in this thread? :)
Just no more mega-embassies. That's all, everyone knows what it means, it's bad enough when a friend does it.
That I can agree with. The question remains though: Why isn't there as much outrage over the US embassy? The criticism of anything related to China (while of course sometimes justified) often seems totally disproportionate, considering what the US or other states are doing. China isn't even close to being as known for their spying as the US/Five Eyes are with ECHELON and whatnot.
Because it's already built and the UK depends on the US militarily. China should not be given a chance to do the same.
PS: but it's very easy, China can ask Moscow to build one there and I'm sure they'll agree.
Was there much criticism before it was built? Doesn't seem like it. I doubt that you would absolutely need an embassy, at least such a big and advanced one, for military purposes, not to mention the fact that depending on the US is and always was stupid to begin with. So why shouldn't China be allowed the same? "Well, because they're not our allies." Okay sure, that brings us back to square one. Either be against both, or neither. Anything else is hypocritical.
The US and China are not equivalent in this. The UK is not neutral ground like Brazil or India where I agree that both need to be equally represented as opposite poles to balance.
You're right, they're not. The US is much worse in this regard (in fact, in many other regards as well), which is exactly what annoys me in this debate. And if you meant that "the US are allies, China is not", then I'm sorry to tell you, but I don't give a flying fuck about the concept of allies. I'm tired of everybody thinking only in allies vs. enemies / us vs. them. Having the US as an ally is not some unchangeable natural law or an excuse for them doing the same, or in this case even worse shit. I'm not even asking the UK to be neutral, just be consistent in your world view and act accordingly.
With trump in the office, usa is ally to no one
So? The only person talking about the USA is you.
I just pointing out the duplicity and so what if Im the only one speaking about it, does this make it less of an issue
What duplicity? If you are not my ally, why should I let you do whatever you want on my turf? It makes no sense. You just sound like a 5-year-old trying to "it's not fair" guilt people into allowing you to build another mega-embassy, which you already admitted is a bad thing for an ally to do, so it will be worse for an adversary.