Communist China has struck a deal with communist Cuba to establish a facility capable of monitoring America’s communications, according to “U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence,” says the Wall Street Journal.
The Chinese “spy base” will allegedly work to intercept communications across the south-eastern United States, as well as monitor American shipping movements.
Given Cuba’s physical proximity to the continental United States, the WSJ believes the move represents an “unprecedented new threat” to America, comparable to the Soviet Union’s move to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.
“While I cannot speak to this specific report, we are well aware of—and have spoken many times to—the People’s Republic of China’s efforts to invest in infrastructure around the world that may have military purposes, including in this hemisphere.”
– John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council.
China has grown increasingly brazen in its challenges to the United States since Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as President, infamously flying a spy balloon across the country in more or less plain sight from January to February this year.
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