Could Trump do a Venezuela in the Indian Ocean?
The US president has slammed UK’s decision to hand control over Chagos archipelago — of which the military base of Diego Garcia is a part — to Mauritius. That has set off fears of an American intervention in the Indian Ocean. TOI traces the long and hard-fought route the islanders have had to take to reclaim their home and how geopolitics threatens to upend their lives again
The US president has slammed UK’s decision to hand control over Chagos archipelago — of which the military base of Diego Garcia is a part — to Mauritius. That has set off fears of an American intervention in the Indian Ocean. TOI traces the long and hard-fought route the islanders have had to take to reclaim their home and how geopolitics threatens to upend their lives again
