THE WHITE HOUSE has a secret contingency plan to solve the shocking Chagos Islands scandal with cash,

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THE WHITE HOUSE has a secret contingency plan to solve the shocking Chagos Islands scandal with cash, the UK Telegraph reported yesterday.

The drastic step is being considered because legally resolving the issue would leave the islands in the hands of Mauritius, a country with a friendly relationship with China.

This is unacceptable to the US. The paper said it got the information from British officials with knowledge of White House discussions.

The plan resembles a 2012 Japanese plot to buy disputed islands in the East China Sea: a move which united mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong people, to the horror of US agencies which had spent millions of dollars to divide them. (Details below.)

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GENUINELY SHOCKING

The Chagos Islands scandal is genuinely shocking, which is why it is never mentioned.

“Between 1968 and 1973, the United States and Great Britain exiled all 1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants of Diego Garcia, rounding people up and forcing them onto boats while killing their dogs in a gas chamber and seizing possession of their entire homeland for the use of the U.S. military,” said a report by World Beyond War, a US-based peace organization.

“The Chagossian people were taken off their island by force and transported in conditions compared to those of slave ships.”

Had China done such a thing, it would be a constant refrain in the international mainstream media for decades. But it was the US and UK, so it gets zero or minimal coverage. (The Telegraph report yesterday makes no mention of it.)

While it is hard to see an attempt to purchase Diego Garcia or the other Chagos islands succeeding, the existence of such a scheme reveals that the US has no intention of returning the territory to its rightful owners.

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‘ASIANS MUST NEVER RULE ASIA’

US foreign policy for Asia is rooted in Kennan and Wolfowitz doctrines, which say that the US must remain the primary force in the region indefinitely: Asians must never be allowed to rule Asia.

A military base on the largest of the Chagos Islands, Diego Garcia, is considered vital for western domination of Asia.

But how can you “buy” all or part of someone else’s country? The step would overturn the modern understanding of sovereignty, which is governed by international law, not cash payments to individuals or governments.

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HOW JAPAN UNITED GREATER CHINA

Another US-controlled country, Japan, tried the “purchasing” trick too.

In the late summer of 2012, Japan said it would purchase the disputed Diaoyu Islands from China, so they could be formally known as the Senkaku Islands of Japan.

This was considered so outrageous that the Mainland Chinese, the residents of Taiwan, and the people of Hong Kong, all united to denounce Japan. All three communities of Greater China supported a Hong Kong-led expedition to defend the islands in the East China Sea.

In all three places, TV broadcasting was halted for live coverage of the Hong Kong boats arriving on the islands.

The unity horrified the National Endowment for Democracy, a US regime change group that had spent tens of millions of dollars to whip up hostility to mainland China from people in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Later the same year, the US worked with the Oslo Freedom Forum (a pro-western political manipulation group which is based in New York, despite the name) to secretly start work on a program of massive anti-China demonstrations in Hong Kong, designed to scare the Taiwanese.

The secret plot leaked when OFF members boasted about it on camera to BBC reporter Laura Kuenssberg.