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Nigel Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Reform Party and Member of Parlianment (MP), warns his country’s decision to surrender the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean will only serve to further expand China’s power in the region. In October, Britain’s far-left Labour government agreed to transfer sovereignty of the island chain—which hosts a major military installation used by both the Untied States and British armed forces—to Mauritius.

“So there’s a string of islands in the Indian ocean, named the Chagos Islands, and they are British territories. One of the most significant islands there is called Diego Garcia,” Farage explained during a Friday appearance on Stephen K. Bannon’s War Room. He continued: “The U.S. Navy have a very, very important strategic military base there, which we—the Brits—let America as allies use. It is a vital, strategic asset.”

The British populist leader, who spearheaded Brexit, told Bannon that without the use of the critical military base on Diego Garcia, fighting the first Gulf War would have been nearly impossible. Refueling long bombers has become one of the core functions for the installation, allowing the U.S. to project power into the Indian Ocean and East Asia.

BRITAIN SELLS OUT TO CHINA. 

“Unbeleivably, our Foreigh Secretary David Lammy—the man that’s recently called Donald Trump a neo-Nazi amongst other things—who is an extreme left winger, has decided to give up British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to the island of Mauritius which is 1,300 miles away,” Farage noted. Additionally, he warned: “The other problem is, there are other islands in that chain which China could start to use as a refuling center, a naval base—I mean this is literally a surrender to Chinese naval interest.”

Farage says the move could hamper President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promise to be a peacemaker by reducing American power and encouraging China to be more aggressive and disruptive in the region.


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Nigel Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Reform Party and Member of Parlianment (MP), warns his country’s decision to surrender the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean will only serve to further expand China’s power in the region. In October, Britain’s far-left Labour government agreed to transfer sovereignty of the island chain—which hosts a major military installation used by both the Untied States and British armed forces—to Mauritius.

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