{"id":69614,"date":"2025-02-22T02:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/keir-starmer-to-tell-donald-trump-that-uks-chagos-deal-will-avoid-tensions-with-china"},"modified":"2025-02-22T02:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:29:31","slug":"starmer-to-tell-trump-that-uks-chagos-deal-will-avoid-tensions-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69614","title":{"rendered":"Starmer to tell Trump that UK\u2019s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius\u2019s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional dispute<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer is due to meet Trump next Friday mainly to discuss the future of Ukraine, but also a UK plan for Gaza\u2019s 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 a strong international component and would prevent Hamas ruling in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/keir-starmer-to-tell-donald-trump-that-uks-chagos-deal-will-avoid-tensions-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius\u2019s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional disputeKeir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius\u2019s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands, including the str&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[753,50,415,319,1644,1622,755,4,52,930,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chagos-islands","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-foreign-policy","category-gaza","category-keir-starmer","category-mauritius","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69614\/revisions\/69615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}