{"id":1228152,"date":"2023-09-26T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2023\/09\/why-boris-johnson-is-wrong-about-the-british-indian-ocean-territory\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:43:00","slug":"why-boris-johnson-is-wrong-about-the-british-indian-ocean-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/26\/why-boris-johnson-is-wrong-about-the-british-indian-ocean-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Boris Johnson Is Wrong About the British Indian Ocean Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"It\u2019s long past time to decolonize the Chagos Islands. None of the former PM\u2019s reasons for keeping control is convincing.\u00a0\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2023\/09\/why-boris-johnson-is-wrong-about-the-british-indian-ocean-territory\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s long past time to decolonize the Chagos Islands. None of the former PM\u2019s reasons for keeping control is convincing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228153,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228152\/revisions\/1228153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}