US President Donald Trump has slammed the United Kingdom’s current transfer to switch management of the strategically vital Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
The UK confirmed its resolution final May to return the islands to the African nation, whereas sustaining management of the US-UK Diego Garcia military base.
At the time, Trump criticized the transfer, which supplies management of the land surrounding a key US navy location to a detailed buying and selling accomplice of China.
He added that the UK’s resolution was “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired. Denmark and its European Allies have to DO THE RIGHT THING.”
For extra context: Britain has managed the area since 1814, and in 1965 it break up the Chagos Islands from Mauritius earlier than that former colony turned unbiased. London stored management of the archipelago and renamed it the British Indian Ocean Territory.
It then evicted virtually 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to create house for the Diego Garcia airbase. The secretive base is necessary to Washington’s pursuits, giving it a big navy presence in the Indian Ocean.