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After initially crying ‘inaccurate,’ Biden admin confirms China has had a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019
The New York Post ^ | 06/11/2023 | Isabel Keane

Posted on 06/11/2023 10:54:56 AM PDT by thegagline

China has teamed up with a communist ally to spy on the US just 90 miles south of Florida, White House officials confirmed.

The country has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019 as part of an effort to ramp up its spying efforts, a Biden administration official said, noting that the issue has been “ongoing” and predates Biden’s presidency.

The anonymous White House official said that the US intelligence community has known of China’s spying from Cuba for some time, deeming it an “ongoing” matter” that is “not a new development.”

The Biden admin has worked to stop China’s efforts to expand its spy operations and believes some progress has been made through diplomacy and other specified action, the official said.

The existence of the Chinese spy base was confirmed by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, which reported that China and Cuba had reached an agreement in principle to build an electronic eavesdropping station on the island. *** Following the news Thursday, the White House called the report inaccurate.

“I’ve seen that press report, it’s not accurate,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in an MSNBC interview Thursday. “What I can tell you is that we have been concerned since day one of this administration about China’s influence activities around the world; certainly in this hemisphere and in this region, we’re watching this very, very closely.”

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to travel to China next week, after a previous trip was canceled as the balloon flew over the US.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenadm; china; chinaspybase; cuba; russia; russianspybase
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To: John S Mosby
Chi-Coms have no business in OUR Caribbean.

Now wait a minute.

That's exactly what Putin had to say about NATO in Ukraine and look what happened.

Are you saying it is NOT alright to have your enemy expanding right up to your doorstep with missiles and snoopers?

21 posted on 06/11/2023 12:48:49 PM PDT by icclearly
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To: Thunder90

Putin still has his spy base in Cuba, and possibly a handful of nuclear weapons.==

Probably so. He needs them to defend Cuba of outside threat.


22 posted on 06/11/2023 1:13:35 PM PDT by nickfrost1
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To: John S Mosby

Monroe Doctrine— is still enforceable to people==

Monro Doctrine is down this times. It had 2 parts. First no outsiders mess inside Americas but the second part USA also doesn’t mess outside of Americas. Second part obviously broken so first part can’t stand.

Also Monro Doctrine was needed for US to limit access her neo-colonial garden: Latin America. So USA may exploit Latin America neo-colonies uninterrupted.

But today those colonies don’t want to be colonies of US anymore. They invite outside player to balance US hegemonism. SO if US can involve to Ukraine then any countries can involve with Latin America. It is fair.


23 posted on 06/11/2023 1:23:51 PM PDT by nickfrost1
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To: thegagline

He’s just a straw man, it’s the obamian death to America deep state at work. In this case, he was the last to know. Shows his irrelavancy and the deep states arrogance...


24 posted on 06/11/2023 1:43:19 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: P-Marlowe

RE: China has had a spy base in the White House since January 21, 2021.
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Joe: Darn it all. That’s the reason all my messages to read to the American people are translated from Mandarin first. Now I get it.


25 posted on 06/11/2023 2:12:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: thegagline

And trump did what to stop it? Nada.


26 posted on 06/11/2023 2:39:28 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: buckalfa

He’s not wrong. Who was president then?


27 posted on 06/11/2023 2:40:14 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: thegagline

China doesn’t require a spy base in Cuba they already have a supply here in D.C..


28 posted on 06/11/2023 3:19:04 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: icclearly

Well, it wasn’t when Che Guevara was known to be trying to fire the Soviet nukes from their mobile sites at the US. Yes it was definitely not alright. And older Florida people will tell you they watched the troops mobilize from Tampa to Orlando and on down the West Coast. Guevara was of course a psychopath- perfect hero for moron hollyweirdos to “revere”.

Bobalu and others here (Humberto Fontova) can tell you how much a lunatic this clown was, And, Fidel (who tipped the Bolivians off on where to get Che, because there can only be one Fidel) is buried right next to Che’ in the “tomb of honor” (the russian jeep broke down bringing Fidels corpse to the place- perfect statement of how idiotic that regime was and is).


29 posted on 06/11/2023 4:15:29 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: icclearly

Putin crazy as he is- was right. Just as the US is right to not have nukes 60 miles off our shores— if they are there and we know it— it is criminal.


30 posted on 06/11/2023 4:16:47 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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31 posted on 06/11/2023 4:25:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: thegagline

It’s planned from the Biden documents on

And GOPe is onboard

Deprive half the nation and record republican turnout of their candidate after they stood by and let his victory be stolen

The idiots here who don’t see that or don’t care

Are just as dangerous to us as the Dems

Maybe more so


32 posted on 06/11/2023 4:32:31 PM PDT by wardaddy (Technology is not by default an improvement )
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To: John S Mosby
Well, it wasn’t when Che Guevara was known to be trying to fire the Soviet nukes from their mobile sites at the US. Yes it was definitely not alright. And older Florida people will tell you they watched the troops mobilize from Tampa to Orlando and on down the West Coast. Guevara was of course a psychopath- perfect hero for moron hollyweirdos to “revere”.

Thank you!

It is alright to invade another country if they are a threat to your security. That's true whether you are JFK, Putin, or now the brain-dead Biden. That's also true whether it is Fidel, Che, Zelensky or Stoltenberg on the other side.

By the way, I arrived for my tour of duty on a submarine that went out to greet the Russians about a year after the crisis, and many of my shipmates were on that boat when it happened. There was no discussion of Che Guevara, only the Russians, Fidel, and those missiles.

It is good to know, though, that the propaganda we've been fed about Putin invading Ukraine was crap (it's okay to protect yourself and your country).

33 posted on 06/11/2023 6:02:45 PM PDT by icclearly
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To: bert

The chinese embassy in Houston was a spy base. They were stealing information from the medical center’s hospitals and from NASA. Trump called them out. That night, the chinese based there were burning a lot of documents in their dumpsters. Since Trump was removed, I would be that their base in Houston is much larger and with more personnel.


34 posted on 06/20/2023 12:30:06 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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