Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Mauritius on Tuesday for talks on upgrading strategic ties. Modi will be the chief guest at the country’s national day and hold talks with Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam. Last month, Trump said he would support a deal between Mauritius and Britain over the future of a U.S.-British base in the Chagos Archipelago. India has historically backed Mauritius claims over the islands, and more recently supported America’s presence in the Indian Ocean to check China’s influence. The Chagos archipelago is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in theIndian Ocean. Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelagos, has been used as a joint British-U.S. military base since the 1970s, it has been claimed by the Mauritius government and the U.N. India’s foreign secretary Vikram Misri said it was in India’s interest to retain the U-S. presence on Diego Garcia as a counterweight to China.