LIVE NOW: Committee on China Holds Urgent Forum Titled ‘The Strategic Risk of Losing Diego Garcia’

The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) says that the UK’s ceding the Chagos Islands to Mauritius could create a “strategic vacuum” potentially exploited by the Chinese Communist Party, jeopardizing the U.S.–UK base on Diego Garcia. This forum is scheduled from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 30.