London Hands Over Important U.S. Military Base to China

"The U.S. government put on a brave face and publicly welcomed the British decision to give away an archipelago of strategic islands this week, but Washington privately warned of the danger of China using them to establish listening stations, a report claims.

Britain’s newspaper of record The Times cites unnamed government sources to substantiate its claims that officials in Washington D.C. and London counselled the UK’s fledgling left-wing government against giving away the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), as was announced yesterday. The archipelago includes Diego Garcia, its largest island, a volcanic atoll upon which perches a strategically vital military base.
The base supports long-range bomber and surveillance aircraft, and passing Western warships. A British supply ship docked at the island just days ago. But the base is also understood to fulfil a crucial role as a listening station, gathering radio traffic and other intelligence from the nations and strategic waterways surrounding it.
The Times stated: “private warnings from the United States and concern among officials that doing so could hand China a strategic spying post”." Breitbart