An international judge who ruled against Britain on the Chagos Islands used to be a Chinese government official who supported ...

Xue Hanqin, a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who ruled against the United Kingdom in the Chagos Islands ...

The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.

In 2019, as vice-president of the ICJ, Xue Hanqin ruled that the UK should give islands to Mauritius ‘as rapidly as possible’ ...