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 decision to hand over the territory was made in 2022 under Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party government following a 2019 non-binding ruling from the International Court of Justice at the…

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