Today’s Secure Freedom Minute with Frank Gaffney: President Donald Trump is reportedly poised to allow hard-left British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to ensure the security and continued use of Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean base indispensable to America’s power-projection capabilities in much of the world. That would be the same Keir Starmer who was recently in Beijing seeking a new special relationship with Red Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Xi seeks to end the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific and, wherever possible, supplant us there. Unfortunately, the deal Starmer’s government has negotiated with the African nation of Mauritius—which Mr. Trump rightly described last month as an act of, quote, “great stupidity”—will predictably lead to the Chinese communists taking over Diego Garcia, just as they did our Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
It’s hard to believe that this president wants to share such a strategically benighted legacy with his much-reviled predecessor.
Xi seeks to end the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific and, wherever possible, supplant us there. Unfortunately, the deal Starmer’s government has negotiated with the African nation of Mauritius—which Mr. Trump rightly described last month as an act of, quote, “great stupidity”—will predictably lead to the Chinese communists taking over Diego Garcia, just as they did our Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
It’s hard to believe that this president wants to share such a strategically benighted legacy with his much-reviled predecessor.
