The UK government is preparing to make its final decision this September: Will the Royal Mint Court become the site of a Mega-Embassy for the People’s Republic of China?
Date: Saturday, 23rd August 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Meeting Point: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO), 18 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA
Marching to: Trafalgar Square / Whitehall
The UK government is preparing to make its final decision this September: Will the Royal Mint Court become the site of a Mega-Embassy for the People’s Republic of China?
We say NO.
Join us on Saturday, 23rd August, for a mass protest led by the Hong Kong diaspora, supported by human rights groups and China’s persecuted communities, to send a loud, united message: The PRC’s Mega-Embassy has no place on British soil.
This is not just another building. This is about:
- Opposing transnational repression: The CCP’s long arm has no right to surveil or intimidate dissenters in the UK.
- Protecting our freedoms: Free speech, protest, and political expression must remain safe and sacred in Britain.
- Standing with victims of the CCP’s authoritarianism: From Hongkongers to Uyghurs, Tibetans, and mainland Chinese dissidents, we stand together against persecution.
The Mega-Embassy would enable greater surveillance, intimidation, and suppression of those who dare speak out – even on British soil.
The world is watching. The PRC is watching. Most importantly, our government is watching.
We will gather at HKETO at 2pm, where we will rally with speeches and protest action.
At 3pm, we will march to Trafalgar Square / Whitehall, the symbolic heart of British democracy, where we will continue to speak out until 4pm.
This is our moment to be heard — before the final decision is made.
We need numbers. We need voices. We need you.
Bring your banners. Bring your energy. Bring your friends.
Share this widely. Let’s make this unignorable.
#NoMegaEmbassy #StandWithHongKong #FreeTibet #StopUyghurGenocide #FreeSouthernMongolia #StopTransnationalRepression #CCPOutOfUK
USEFUL LINKS
Tsamtruk: China’s ‘Super-Embassy’ in London Must Be Stopped: A Threat to Democracy and Human Rights
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Stronger Track Two Networks Needed
TRANSCEND MEMBERS https://www.transcend.org/tms/category/transcend-members/, 4 Aug 2025
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service https://www.transcend.org/tms/author/?a=Ren%C3%A9%20Wadlow
The continuing armed conflict in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, increased tensions between Mainland China and Taiwan with the lack of any formal governmental negotiations forces us to ask if more can be done on the part of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to encourage negotiations in good faith.
Governmental efforts, bilateral or within the United Nations can be called Track One. Track One diplomacy is official government negotiations with the backup resources of government research and intelligence agencies. There can also be Track One “back channels” of informal or unofficial contacts.
Track Two diplomacy is a non-official effort usually by an NGO or an academic institution. The use of non-official mediators is also increasing as awareness grows that there is a tragic disjuncture between the U.N. mandate to keep peace and its inability to intervene in conflics within a State – often confrontations between armed groups and government forces and sometimes among different armed groups.
Track Two talks are discussions held by non-officials of conflicting parties in an attempt to clarify outstanding disputes and to explore the options for resolving them in settings that are less sensitive than those associated with formal negotiations. The participants usually include scholars, senior journalists, former government officials and former military officers. They should be in close contact with national leaders and decision-makers. The purposes of Track Two talks vary, but they are all related to reducing tensions. Much depends on the caliber and dedication of the participants and their relations with governmental leadership.
Citizens of the World were involved in one of the earliest continuing Track Two efforts. In 1959 President Eisenhower asked the world citizen Norman Cousins, editor of the New York-based journal, The Saturday Review of Literature if there were some way that could be arranged to get private Soviet and U.S. citizens together to discuss U.S.-Soviet relations.
The first meeting was held at Dartmouth College and became known as the Dartmouth Conferences held in many different places in the U.S.A. David Rockefeller, chief of the Chase Manhattan Bank, whose name as a capitalist was known by most Soviets, was one of the active participants. Rockefeller and his family had many contacts with U.S. intellectuals and scholars on whom they could call to participate in the Dartmouth meetings.
As Kenneth Boulding, a Quaker economist who often participated in Track Two efforts wrote:
“When Track One will not do, We have to travel on Track Two. But for results to be abiding, The Tracks must meet upon some siding.” (1)
Note:
1) quoted in John W. McDonald with Noa Zanolli The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008, 241 pp)
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https://www.transcend.org/tms/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rene-Wadlow–e1695369695147.jpgRené Wadlow is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment https://www.transcend.org/. He **is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues*
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