2023-06-11 14:10:21
The governments of Cuba and China deny that a secret Chinese spy base is being established on the socialist Caribbean island. Carlos Fernandez de Cosio, Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a press conference in Havana last Friday in which he stated that this was news that was published without any basis in reality “in order to tighten the long-standing American embargo on our homeland.” The Cuban official further clarified, “We oppose any foreign military presence in Latin America and the Caribbean, and first and foremost we call for the closure of the American military base operating in the Cuban Guantanamo Bay.” He also tweeted yesterday that the reports about Chinese spying facilities in his country are “slanderous speculation”.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, also commented on the publications in the US on Friday and said: “The US is a world champion in hacking into the international media and a superpower in surveillance.” According to him, “the fake news is spread to sabotage relations between the US and China”. It should be noted that the spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, denied the reports about the Chinese base in Cuba last week and said they were “inaccurate”. He added that “we had real concerns about China’s relationship with Cuba, and from the first day of the administration we were concerned about China’s activities in our hemisphere and around the world.”
“China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement on the establishment of an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in exchange for billions of dollars that Beijing will transfer to Havana” – the American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” reported on Thursday, citing American officials privy to the classified intelligence information.
According to the report, the facility will allow Beijing to collect electronic communications from the southeastern United States, an area where many military bases are deployed. According to the sources who spoke with the “Wall Street Journal”, the intelligence on the plans to establish a Chinese base in Cuba was gathered in recent weeks and was convincing. They added that the facility would provide China with the means to conduct signals intelligence, which includes access to emails, phone calls and satellite communications.
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