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Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.

China and Cuba have agreed to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island to monitor U.S. communications, sparking alarm within the Biden administration. China has agreed to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billion dollars to allow it to build the eavesdropping station in a brash new

China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the U.S.
An eavesdropping facility in Cuba, roughly 100 miles from Florida, would allow Chinese intelligence services to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern U.S.
China has agreed to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billion dollars to allow it to build the eavesdropping station.
The revelation about the planned site has sparked alarm within the Biden administration.
Cuba and China have reached an agreement in principle for the eavesdropping facility.

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