![]() ![]() ![]() However, Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, a US Defense Department spokesperson, denied the report and said, "We are not aware of China and Cuba developing a new type of spy station." John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said the report is not "accurate" while also noting the US' "real concerns" about China's relations with Cuba, Reuters reported.Ĭuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio also refuted the Wall Street Journal report as "totally mendacious and unfounded" and said it is a US fabrication meant to justify Washington's decades-old economic embargo against the island.Ĭhinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on Friday that spreading rumors and slander is a common tactic of the US. More Western and US media followed Wall Street Journal in reporting the "news." CNN also claimed that Cuba has agreed to allow China to build a spying facility on the island, citing two sources familiar with the intelligence. ![]() On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal claimed that China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 160 kilometers from Florida. The US media's latest sensational reports of "China's eavesdropping facility" in Cuba, which reminds people of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 - one of the fiercest scenes of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union - could be a new farce staged by the media and some US politicians as "good cop, bad cop" with the purpose of gaining the "upper hand" and pressuring China in any possible dialogue, analysts said, referring to a simultaneous US revelation of top diplomat Antony Blinken's possible visit to China. He refuted the Wall Street Journal report alleging China's deal of building a spy station in Cuba as "totally mendacious and unfounded." Photo: Visual NewsĬhina on Friday criticized the US' long-term interference in Cuba's internal affairs and urged it to stop undermining the political foundation of bilateral relations while claiming to build "guardrails" on China-US relations after the US media's hype of China's so-called deal of building a spy station in Cuba. Cuba's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio speaks during a press conference on June 8, 2023. ![]()
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