HAVANA: The Havana government on Thursday (Jun 9) denied United States news reports that it has reached a deal for China to set up a spying base in Cuba, just off American shores. Cuba's deputy foreign minister said the reports by The Wall Street Journal and CNN were 'mendacious and unfounded'. The White H
But Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, reading a statement to journalists, called the reports"totally mendacious and unfounded".
"We are not aware of China and Cuba developing any type of spy station," Ryder said, adding:"The relationship that those two countries share is something that we continuously monitor."But Democratic Senator Mark Warner and Republican Marco Rubio, who head the Senate Intelligence Committee and are usually briefed on important security matters, said in a statement that they were"deeply disturbed" by the Journal report.
"We must be clear that it would be unacceptable for China to establish an intelligence facility within 100 miles of Florida and the United States." Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed a rapid expansion of the country's security presence around the world, aiming to match the broad footprint of the US military on all the continents.
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