{"id":146410,"date":"2026-02-18T20:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146410"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:19:43","slug":"trump-flip-flops-again-saying-uks-chagos-deal-would-be-big-mistakeunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146410","title":{"rendered":"Trump flip-flops again, saying UK\u2019s Chagos deal would be \u2018big mistake\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump said the UK was making a \u201cbig mistake\u201d with its proposed deal to turn over control of the Chagos Islands, just weeks after saying the agreement was the \u201cbest\u201d arrangement UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could make.<br \/>\n\u201cPrime Minister Starmer should not lose control, for any reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, at best, 100 Year Lease,\u201d Trump said in a social media post on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u201cThis land should not be taken away from the U.K. and, if it is allowed to be, it&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3343944\/trump-flip-flops-again-saying-uks-chagos-deal-would-be-big-mistake?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump said the UK was making a \u201cbig mistake\u201d with its proposed deal to turn over control of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}