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Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged on Monday that China upgraded its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019.

Last Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that China had agreed to pay Cuba billions of dollars to establish a major signals and electronic intelligence station on the island.

DoD "personnel did not have the required accountability of the thousands of defense items that they received and transferred," the department's inspector general wrote in a report.

The White House says China has a spy base in Cuba after previously denying Wall Street Journal reports of a spy base deal between the two countries.

Biden administration implements measures to counter China's security presence expansion on global scale

The communist nations of China and Cuba have reached a clandestine agreement for Beijing to establish an espionage facility on the island. China's proposal involves the construction of an [...]

The Pentagon announced on Friday the new package of long-term military assistance will include air defense and munitions for laser-guided rockets, an

US and Cuban officials dismissed a Wall Street Journal report about a surveillance base to be built in the Caribbean.

The Pentagon on Thursday dismissed a report in the Wall Street Journal about Chinese plans to set up an electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, saying it was not aware of any such effort and characterizing the report as "inaccurate." "I can tell you based on the information that we have, that that is not accurate, that we are not aware of China and Cuba developing a new type of spy station," said Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder.

The Wall Street Journal said Beijing and Havana secretly agreed on the facility, some 100 miles off Florida. The Cuban government denied the "unfounded" reports, while the White House said it wasn't "accurate."