Times Radio - Evening Edition, Is The New Chinese Embassy a threat?

There will be state security officials and military intelligence officials in the embassy. I think that's fairly standard for most countries, embassies throughout the world, but I don't think the Chinese will be using it as the centre of their spy place because these days with the technical and other technological and other forms of surveillance you want to keep your activities I imagine well away from the centre of attention, which is an embassy. So the Chinese, they tend to meet their agents, recruit their agents in third countries well away from them, the attentions of MI5 and others. And if you look at what's happened both in our own country and elsewhere in the world in terms of revelations about Chinese espionage, these operations have not been run from embassies."