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Don’t
Let Starmer Make Diego Garcia
the Next Bagram:
Just say “No” to Its Surrender to the CCP
Friday, January 30, 2026
1:00–2:15 p.m. ET
FULL TRANSCRIPT
NOTE: This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may contain grammatical and spelling errors incurred during transcription. Please refer to the referenced media to confirm.
Europeans have been sharply critical of President Trump for his insistence that U.S. security requires actual ownership of Greenland. Formerly Great Britain is, however, giving everyone an object lesson on why that is so.
The UK’s hard-left Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been in Beijing this week negotiating a new “strategic partnership” with Communist China. Simultaneously, he’s seeking parliamentary approval to surrender British sovereignty over – and, inevitably, U.S. use of – Diego Garcia, a strategically vital base in the Indian Ocean.
The Chinese Communist Party would be the principal beneficiary of such a betrayal, and probably ultimately the inheritors of that base, as they were Afghanistan’s Bagram.
The President has rightly called Starmer’s sellout on Diego Garcia an act of “great stupidity. Eighty top U.S. and U.K. military, political and academic leaders endorsed that assessment as part an urgent public statement calling for the British government to abandon its efforts to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands – including Diego Garcia – to the pro-CCP African nation of Mauritius.
President Trump must now inform the Brits that the United States formally rejects the deal and will take ownership of the island if they relinquish it.
This CPDC webinar examines the critical strategic importance of Diego Garcia; the implications of its loss for U.S. power projection; the prospects that – if the UK-Mauritius deal is approved – American security, including its nuclear deterrent posture, would be adversely affected; and the likelihood that the end-result will be the Chinese Communist Party will pull off a Bagram 2.0.
Moderator
- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; Member, Victory Coalition; host, “Securing America”
Panelists:
- J.R. Nyquist, Internationally recognized strategic analyst; blogger at JRNyquist.blog; author, The Origins of the Fourth World War
- Charles “Sam” Faddis, Esq., Former career CIA undercover operative; Army veteran; editor, AndMagazine.substack.com; author, Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA
- Rod Martin, Esq., Former Policy Advisor to then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee; former founding counsel for Paypal; entrepreneur; pundit, commentator and essayist at RodMartin.org; editor, The Rod Martin Report.
- Robert Midgley, Communications Advisor to Four British Prime Ministers, Spokesman for Friends of the British Overseas Territories
- Cleo Paskal, Senior Non-resident Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; internationally recognized expert on the strategic significance of Indo-Pacific waters and their islands
- Col. Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Foreign Service Officer; longtime businessman in East Asia; author, When China Attacks: A Warning to America; Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
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