Could Trump do a Venezuela in 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. Padma Rao Sundarji 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

Could Trump do a Venezuela in 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. Padma Rao Sundarji 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