COMMENTARY_ Britain atones for its colonialist past by encouraging China’s colonialist present

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Britain atones for its colonialist past by encouraging China’s colonialist present

Britain’s colonialist and China’s colonialist present illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY

By Clifford D. May - Tuesday, October 8, 2024

OPINION:


You’ve probably never heard of the Chagos Islands, and I’m sorry to put them on your to-worry-about list.

I’m doing so because this remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean includes Diego Garcia, which hosts a British-American military base strategically vital to gathering intelligence and projecting air and naval power into the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific.

Last week, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed to give the Chagos Islands to the tiny Republic of Mauritius.

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East Turkistan (which China renamed Xinjiang, meaning “New Frontier”) and Tibet are among the nations Beijing has colonized. Laos has become a vassal state, and China is pressuring the Philippines and Vietnam to kowtow.

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Beijing claims sovereignty over the South China Sea, another strategic international waterway. If the U.S. lacks the will to deter or defeat the Houthis, why would anyone believe the U.S. will prevent the Chinese navy — already the largest in the world and growing fast — from pursuing its advantages?

China’s rulers may be developing more naval bases in Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Cambodia and Pakistan.

Doing so would bolster its Belt and Road Initiative, an effort to build land and sea networks connecting China with — and enhancing China’s power over — Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

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I’m not saying this strategy will succeed. I’m not saying it all depends on the maintenance of a military base on Diego Garcia, which Conservative members of Parliament say they will try to block.

I am saying that Mr. Starmer, like too many other Western leaders, is more eager to atone for Britain’s colonialist past than to defend the free world from China’s colonialist present.

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