China’s trickery exposed, Dragon’s spy base exists in Cuba since 2019, US claims

Washington. China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019. A top official of US President Joe Biden’s administration made this claim on Saturday. He said China is operating a spy base in Cuba as part of global efforts to enhance its intelligence-gathering capabilities.

The official said on the condition of anonymity that US intelligence agencies are aware of China’s involvement in the past few years of espionage from Cuba and efforts to gather large-scale classified information globally.

According to the official, the Biden administration has stepped up efforts to thwart China’s efforts to expand its espionage campaign. He said the Biden administration appears to have managed to make some progress in this direction through diplomacy and other unspecified actions.

The official said that soon after President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, intelligence agencies had informed his national security team that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was using logistics around the world as part of efforts to increase its influence globally. , expanding its infrastructure and intelligence gathering capabilities.

According to the official, the PLA has identified several places in this regard in the Atlantic Ocean, Latin America, the Gulf region, Central Asia, Africa and the Indian Pacific region. Earlier, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ newspaper in a news published on Thursday claimed an agreement between the two countries to set up China’s electronic espionage base in Cuba.

According to the newspaper, in exchange for the establishment of the spy base, China had agreed to pay billions of dollars to Cuba, which is facing economic crisis. However, the White House and Cuban officials had denied this news.

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Tags: China, Joe Biden, United States, Xi Jinping