{"id":76124,"date":"2026-01-29T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/28\/us-intelligence-agencies-disagree-with-trumps-opposition-to-chagos-deal-says-starmer"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:00:41","slug":"us-intelligence-agencies-disagree-with-trumps-opposition-to-chagos-deal-says-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76124","title":{"rendered":"US intelligence agencies disagree with Trump\u2019s opposition to Chagos deal, says Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street sources say agreement is \u2018done deal\u2019 and will not be scuppered by US president\u2019s U-turn<\/p>\n<p>US intelligence agencies disagree with Donald Trump\u2019s newly found opposition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/20\/what-are-chagos-islands-uk-mauritius-explainer\">Chagos deal<\/a>, Keir Starmer has said, as he underlined how the US administration had supported the deal as it bolstered their defences.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister made his remarks, which could undermine the US president\u2019s fresh view of the deal as an \u201cact of great stupidity\u201d, on the flight to Beijing for a visit that will cover UK national security among other issues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/28\/us-intelligence-agencies-disagree-with-trumps-opposition-to-chagos-deal-says-starmer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street sources say agreement is \u2018done deal\u2019 and will not be scuppered by US president\u2019s U-turnUS intelligence agencies disagree with Donald Trump\u2019s newly found opposition to the Chagos deal, Keir Starmer has said, as he underlined how the US ad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5153,"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":[41,753,50,415,1622,4,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chagos-islands","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124","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\/5153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124\/revisions\/76125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}