British lawmakers demanded answers on Wednesday from ministers about how they will protect the joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Lawmakers issue warning that the U.K. s decision to begin negotiations to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius could let China into key strategic area, close to U.S. military base on Diego Garcia.
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Looked at from this side of the Palk Strait the Chinese threat looms large in Sri Lanka. Most recently, the Sri Lankan parliament passed the Colombo Port City Commission Bill with a nearly two-thirds majority in the 225-member house. Land reclamation work on what will be the Chinese-built $15-billion mega-special economic zone began in 2018. The passing of the bill revived India’s concerns about Chinese domination of the island nation.
But the real game is being played beyond Sri Lanka in the shared waters of the Indian Ocean where the Chinese and other global powers all want to fish in troubled waters.