Chagos deal chaos as MP claims China could build base on Diego Garcia
The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...
Chagos Islands judge is ex-China official who backed Putin's attack on Ukraine
The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.
Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine
In 2019, as vice-president of the ICJ, Xue Hanqin ruled that the UK should give islands to Mauritius ‘as rapidly as possible’ ...
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Chagos deal 'puts British nuclear deterrent at risk': Chinese 'could exploit' secret satellite link-up at military base that co-ordinates West's missiles
A top-secret satellite system used to direct British and US nuclear ... sources fear that China could get close enough to the sensitive military facilities. A source said: ‘ADNS 3 provides ...
China building world’s largest military command centre – 10 times bigger than Pentagon
China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence ...
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UK should boost ties with Brunei: research report
The UK has very little economic trade with Brunei, its 136th-largest trade partner. Shell has been operating in Brunei since ...
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Navy trains with allies in South China Sea amid uptick in Indo-Pacific activity
The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold joined its Australian and British counterparts for a two-day exercise in the South ...
US defence secretary signals dramatic shift in American military policy away from Europe, warning allies about 'stark strategic realities'
The US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth tells allies that, with Donald Trump as US president, it is "unrealistic" to think ...
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Don’t force Pacific island nations to choose between China and the West: UK navy admiral
The West should not pressure Pacific island countries to choose between cooperating with China or with the US and its allies, a British navy admiral has said, pointing out that Beijing’s ...
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Together, The U.S. And Japan Can Preserve A Free And Open Indo-Pacific
It is time to bring together a redoubtable defensive alliance that can deter Chinese hegemonic designs across the region—an ...
Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine and says Europe must be responsible for country’s security
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must end,” that Kyiv joining ...
Chinese spy balloon contents revealed two years after it was shot down over US
A giant orb moving across the United States was definitely a Chinese spy balloon said the Biden administration in 2023 and now two years later its contents have been revealed ...