Handed to a “China ally” (who letting India build a base there), which could mean China getting a strategic foothold there (they have several, and no, it won’t).

Then you have the 'I have googled exactly one fact', i.e. the 'but we paid Mauritius for it in 1965'. Yeah, on the obviously nonsense proviso we would give it them at some point in the future that they never planned would happen!

I just hear "China" in these pontifications like how trump pronounces it