Farage claims Trump insiders 'horrified' at Chagos deal with MauritiusSource: BBC
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00:00Donald Trump himself, you say the whole team, but is he agitated, exercised by it?
00:05Have you spoken to him about it?
00:07I never disclose private conversations I have with Donald Trump.
00:10That's why he likes me and trusts me.
00:12But I have spoken to very senior members of his incoming cabinet team and they are...
00:15So Marco Rubio, people like that?
00:17They are horrified.
00:18Horrified?
00:19Horrified.
00:20Why?
00:21Because they know that China has extraordinary naval ambitions.
00:24We see that literally every month in the South China Sea as they encroach on new territories,
00:29they try and reclaim atolls and the trouble with this deal is, well, number one, it's
00:34totally unnecessary and there is no basis in international law that we have to do this
00:40that stands up.
00:41But the worry is that it's a 99-year lease.
00:46Sounds great.
00:47But we had a 50-year deal with China over Hong Kong, that unraveled.