Britain and the United States have just had their most serious falling-out since the 2024 election. Their quarrel was notionally over a leaseback deal for their joint military base on Diego Garcia, but in truth it was about international law. This time, and I say it as one of his critics, President Donald Trump was 100% in the right.

A little history: When Britain was thrusting independence on its colonies in the 1960s, the U.S. asked for a base on Diego Garcia, an atoll with a matchless strategic location halfway between Africa and Indonesia. Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Archipelago, which had been ceded by France to Britain in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic War. Britain obliged, turning the islands into the British Indian Ocean Territory and relocating their population — around 1,800 people — to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make room for the military installation.

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There things rested until the early years of the 21st century, when Mauritius began to draw closer to China. After years of lobbying, Mauritius was able to cobble together an........

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