Try to find Diego Garcia on a map. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. It takes a moment. The atoll sits in the precise middle of the Indian Ocean , a footprint-shaped sliver of coral and palm trees so remote that the nearest major landmass is Sri Lanka, roughly a thousand miles to the north. The island’s total land area is under 17 square miles, and it has no indigenous industry, no tourist infrastructure, no particular reason for anyone to care about it. China noticed anyway. Diego Garcia’s strategic

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