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China, which has built a big embassy in Malabo, the island capital, is cosying up too.

Over the course of the 20th century, as the whole world caught nation-state fever, having a fine Olympic team became as important a symbol for newly formed countries as a flag, an anthem, an airline and a big embassy in a leafy district of Washington, DC.In this section It's those people, all over again To which Viktor, the spoils?

But for Ms. Lui, the architectural pinnacle was in the 1950's and early 60's, when the government embarked on a big embassy-building program and made a controversial choice to embrace Modernism, to convey "openness, democracy and technological superiority".

Big EU member states favour the EU wielding a more muscular approach abroad through big embassies in key capitals; the commission is said to be fighting a rearguard action to retain as much power as possible.

"The big embassies make a conscious effort to stay in contact with the strongest national delegations in parliament," says Florent Saint Martin, associate professor at Sciences Po, and a former MEP assistant who founded his own lobby consultancy.

A name like that, says Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili, should open doors.The towering figure on the Berlin diplomatic scene is the Russian ambassador to Germany, Vladimir Kotenev, an indefatigable socialite who runs what is probably the biggest embassy in Europe.

The idea of building an even bigger embassy in Pakistan is unwise, says Warde.

The biggest embassies in Islamabad are in a gated enclave reserved entirely for foreign missions.

Instead, the Americans will retain one of its biggest embassies in the world, with some 17,000 diplomats and advisers, secured by a military force of fewer than 200 troops.

The United States has built a big new embassy but offers less aid than Mr Chávez.

And, of the big foreign embassies in Kabul, analysts say that India's offered among the least-protected targets.