OPINION: China and Cuba partnership a major threat right in our backyard
NEWChinese intelligence servicesRoughly 100 miles from American soil, this partnership would provide Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping with the unprecedented opportunity to access sensitive U.S. communications, including high-value targets such as military bases and naval traffic. A Cuba spy base would provide Chinese President Xi Jinping the unprecedented opportunity to access sensitive U.S. communications.
If true, this escalation from Beijing and Havana poses a major provocation and security threat, not only to the U.S., but to freedom throughout the Western Hemisphere. REPORTED CHINA SPY BASE IN CUBA POSES ‘IMMINENT THREAT’ TO AMERICANS, HOUSE REPUBLICAN WARNS BIDEN ADMIN This is not the first time that Havana has enabled hostile powers to surveil the U.S. in our backyard – the Castro regime hosted similar facilities with the Soviet Union, and later with Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
The burgeoning Cuban-Chinese partnership, however, poses a clear and present danger to our national security that harkens back to the Cold War. And if left unchecked, will only signal American weakness to a probing and increasingly bellicose China. Beijing and Havana have made their intentions toward those who oppose their authoritarian will brutally clear.
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