(EFE)
“The affirmations of the Secretary of State of the United States (Antony Blinken) about the presence of a Chinese spy base in Cuba constitute a falsehood,” said the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, in a statement published on his Twitter account. Twitter and official media.
The head of Cuban diplomacy pointed out that “Cuba’s position on this issue is clear and categorical,” and affirmed that Blinken’s statements “lack foundation.”
“Cuba is not a threat to the United States, nor to any country. The United States applies a policy that threatens and punishes the Cuban population as a whole on a daily basis”
“Cuba is not a threat to the United States, nor to any country. The United States applies a policy that daily threatens and punishes the Cuban population as a whole,” stressed the Cuban foreign minister.
He also considered that Washington’s accusations have the purpose of “serving as a pretext to maintain the economic blockade against Cuba and the maximum pressure measures that have reinforced it in recent years.”
Secretary of State Blinken said this Monday during a press conference that the Government of Joe Biden has “a strategy” to counteract Chinese espionage in Cuba and in other countries that is yielding results.
On Saturday, the US government declassified information from its intelligence services They claim that China has had “intelligence collection facilities” since 2019, or even earlier, a term that can include everything from centers with dozens of spies to a simple listening post equipped with an antenna.
According to those reports, when Joe Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021, he received information that China was trying to expand its intelligence services around the world by creating spy centers in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
The Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, assured that what was published by the New York newspaper was “unfounded information”, “slander” and “fallacies”.
Blinken made those statements days after The Wall Street Journal published that China and Cuba had agreed to build a large spy center on the island, information that the Havana government categorically denied and that the White House initially described as “inaccurate.”
The Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, assured that what was published by the New York newspaper was “unfounded information”, “slander” and “fallacies” to justify the United States sanctions against Cuba and destabilize the Island.
For his part, the Chinese government accused the United States of “spreading rumors and slander”.
One of the White House spokesmen, John Kirby, responded this Monday at a press conference to questions from EFE that “we have made our concerns clear,” when asked if there had been any communication with the Cuban Executive on this issue.
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