Caroline Knowles’s Uneasy Streets reveals extent of Beijing’s power in UK, from policing outposts to secret embassy rooms

Telegraph: For, as The Telegraph revealed earlier this year, China plans to build 208 secret rooms beneath the new embassy, including a hidden chamber that will sit alongside Britain’s most sensitive communication cables. But there are more insidious issues at play. When the Crown Estate offloaded the freehold of the site, for instance – doing it “off market” to an “unnamed client” – the deal included a swathe of affordable social-housing units just behind the former money-printing building. Their landlord had, overnight, changed from Her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, to the People’s Republic of China (PRC)…