Webinar | Trump Tells Starmer Surrendering Diego Garcia to the CCP:Fuggedaboutit
A CPDC WEBINAR
President Trump Tells Britain’s Kier
Starmer
re: Giving Away Diego Garcia:
Fuggedaboutit
Thursday, February 19, 2026
11:00 am-12:15 pm 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.
For over two centuries, Britain’s treacherous diplomacy earned it the nickname of “Perfidious Albion.”
Yesterday, President Trump subtly channeled that sentiment in a polite, but very firm, repudiation of Britain’s latest act of diplomatic subterfuge – namely, its gambit effectively to give away its right, and ours, to use a strategically critical Indian Ocean base called Diego Garcia.
Worse yet, Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s odious deal with the China-dominated nation of Mauritius would predictably result in our mortal enemy – the Chinese Communist Party taking over that vital asset.
Mr. Trump rightly told Starmer “DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA.” Given the Brit leader’s utter perfidiousness – and that of the State Department, which blessed the deal on Tuesday – the President better explicitly rule out any surrender of the rest of the Chagos archipelago, as well.
This CPDC webinar addresses the necessity for America to retain unlimited access to and use of Diego Garcia – and to preclude the Chinese Communists from not only supplanting us there, but also from being able to compromise our operations in and from the region by obtaining an Mauritius-enabled presence in the Chagos archipelago.
Moderator
- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; Member, Victory Coalition; host, “Securing America”
Panelists:
- Col. Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Military Attaché in Embassy Tokyo; former Foreign Service Officer; longtime business executive in the Western Pacific; Author, “When China Attacks: A Warning to America”
- Christopher Howarth, Works for the European Research Group, a former Parliamentary candidate, special advisor and author of a political thriller “The Durian Pact”, based on his time in politics.
- Cleo Paskal, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; consultant, Network for Strategic Analysis; board member, International Board of Advisors of the Global Counter-Terrorism Council; taught at Defense Colleges in the United Kingdom, India and Oman
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