The American Journal The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) post this wednesday a new exclusive about the alleged establishment of a Chinese espionage base on the island. With a source in people familiar with the matter, the newspaper assures that during the Government of Donald Trump, US intelligence tracked workers from the Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE entering and Leaving facilities “suspected of hosting Chinese espionage operations in Cuba.”
This underpinned the suspicions of the Administration at the time, continues the wsj, that these firms could be helping to expand China’s ability to spy on the United States from the Island.
The note refers that they have not been able to find out if the current Joe Biden government “has followed that line of investigation”, since the White House did not comment on the matter. “While it is known that neither Huawei nor ZTE make the tools that governments would use to spy, both specialize in the technology necessary to facilitate such an operation,” the same anonymous sources told the US newspaper.
Huawei responded to wsj denying “such unfounded accusations” and assuring that it was “committed to full compliance with applicable laws and regulations where we operate”, while ZTE did not respond to them.
This Tuesday, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said that the United States is “deeply concerned” by the fact that China could agree with Cuba on a military training facility on the island, as published yesterday by the W.S.J.
“It’s something that we’re going to monitor very, very closely and we’ve been very clear about it. And we will protect our homeland, we will protect our interests.”
“It is something that we are going to monitor very, very closely and we have been very clear about it. And we will protect our homeland, we will protect our interests,” Blinken said at a press conference in London, according to the Reuters agency, after concluding precisely his official trip to Beijing.
In it, Washington and Beijing agreed channel their relationships before their intensified rivalry, although without realizing great advances. Hours earlier, President Joe Biden had referred to Xi Jinping as a “dictator” during an event in Kentfield, California, to raise funds for his re-election campaign.
Biden was talking about the incident with the alleged Chinese spy balloon that Washington ordered to be shot down last February after being detected flying over US soil. According to the president, Xi felt “embarrassed” by the episode since he “did not know the balloon was there.” And he added: “That is the great shame of dictators, when they do not know that something has happened.”
The US authorities already suggested in February that the Chinese president was not part of the decision to send the balloon, according to what CNN published at the time, citing sources familiar with the situation.
According to the report on Tuesday wsj, the negotiations between China and the islandwhich would imply having troops from the Asian country in security and intelligence operations 100 kilometers from Florida, are “advanced but not specified.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning responded to the US publication by saying she was “unaware of the issue”, which came up just a day after the US Secretary of State’s visit to Beijing ended, ostensibly to smooth things over. between the two powers.
Two weeks ago, another exclusive from the Wall Street Journal assured that Cuba and China had reached a financial agreement for the creation of a spy base in insular territory, something that was denied by both parties.
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