British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pulled legislation to hand over the strategically significant Chagos Islands to an ally of Communist China following pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Earlier this week, President Trump declared that for the United Kingdom to give up the Indian Ocean territory with a “vital” joint U.S. military base to the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius for “no reason whatsoever” was an “act of great stupidity”.
The comments came amid a back-and-forth over control of Greenland and the potential for incursions by adversarial nations such as China. Prime Minister Starmer attempted to claim that the critiques from Mr Trump were merely made in the service of advancing his aim of acquiring Greenland from Denmark rather than genuine
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