[Californiajones]

Using Cuba for purely military reasons makes some sense, but more than that is the chokehold China currently has on the Panama Canal and the strategic importance of the former Soviet spy facility at Lourdes -- now China has their own spy station on Cuba at Bejucal, Cuba, and I'm sure Castro pockets the rent money. They use it for industrial/commercial and political espionage.

All Castro has to sell now that he's raped his own country of its beauty and natural resources, destroyed its economy and demoralized the populace -- is Cuba's proximity to the evil United States. For that, the Chinese are willing to pay. Formerly, the Russians had been willing to pay and when they pulled out right after 9/11, Castro was hopping mad again at the loss of dough.

Commie tyrants like Castro just don't understand how to make money the hard way because they are too busy projecting their own materialistic greed onto the amorphous "evil Capitalists".

[WoofDog123]

" but more than that is the chokehold China currently has on the Panama Canal"

How is having H-W and the minority entities through PPC lease balboa and cristobal ports a 'chokehold?'