Starmer to tell Trump that UK's Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China

Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius's legal claim to own the Chagos Islands including the strategic US military base at Diego Garcia may stoke tensions similar to those in the South China Sea. Starmer is due to meet Trump next Friday mainly to discuss the future of Ukraine, but also a UK plan for Gaza's reconstruction under international protection with no need for Palestinians to be required to quit the Gaza Strip. The paper is similar but not identical to proposals being discussed by Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh, which has…