Trump has taken the UK’s surrender of Diego Garcia to Mauritius seriously, calling it a stupid decision. Diego Garcia is crucial for intervention in the Middle East, the sub-Indian continent and Africa. Similarly, from Diego Garcia, oil shipments to China, which has already lost Venezuela and is now dependent on Iran and Russia for oil, can be stopped.

“Trump has done an about-face, partly because of the UK’s support for Denmark’s sovereignty claim over Greenland and partly because of a new strategy outlined by the White House,” John Hemmings, director of the National Security Centre at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.

“These measures are interconnected and are part of a ‘new Trump doctrine’ outlined in November’s National Security Strategy,” he explained.

“Diego Garcia is a potential threat to Beijing’s strategy to control key shipping routes between the oil-rich Middle East and China’s industrial heartland,” he added, describing how “nearly 23.7 million barrels of oil are transported through the Indian Ocean every day and that the base is crucial in any conflict between the US and China over Taiwan”.

It’s all about strategy and relations with China now. But the media and politicians don’t seem to be able to see the connection. But Trump does.</p

“The United Kingdom giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is yet another in a long line of national security reasons why Greenland must be acquired,” Trump wrote.

In 2019, the International Court of Justice ruled that the UK did not have the right to keep Diego Garcia, but had to hand the island over to Mauritius. However, the UK can lease the island for an astronomical $160 million annually for 99 years.

But as soon as the treaty comes into force, Mauritius can kick out the British and the Americans, and the Americans would have trouble defying the international community.

“If Mauritius were to offer the islands to China after taking legal control, it would put enormous pressure on the US in the international community,” Hemmings explained.

“After all, once Mauritius has legal sovereignty, it can renegotiate the terms of the lease or even break the treaty at any time it wishes.

It may seem as if China’s influence over the UK is already great. If so, that’s the end of the special relationship.

“It could also give Chinese fishing fleets access to the exclusive economic zone, with all its rich fishing grounds, which would increase the risk to US air defence operations around the island,” Hemmings said.

“At the moment, the US base on Diego Garcia is considered secure, as Mauritius has promised the UK (and therefore the US) a 99-year lease that presumably won’t affect operations at the airbase at all. But the devil is in the detail.”

https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-slams-uk-island-handoff-deal-put-key-us-military-base-risk

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