“China is not Cuba’s sugar daddy,” said Fulton Armstrong, former US national intelligence officer for Latin America. “It’s mostly a relationship of solidarity statements.

China's strategic investments in Cuba coincide with U.S. accusations that China is installing “spy bases” on the nearby Caribbean Island, though Cuba and China have denied the allegations.

China’s spying in Cuba picks up where the Soviet Union left off Russia’s listening station in Lourdes some 18 miles outside of Havana in 2001. | BLOOMBERG By Eric Martin and Jim Wyss Bloomberg ...

China’s strategic investments in Cuba coincide with U.S. accusations that China is installing “spy bases” on the nearby Caribbean Island, though Cuba and China have denied the allegations.

Meanwhile, China has quietly become Cuba’s second-largest trading partner and a major creditor. In recent years, Beijing extended nearly $6 billion in loans and credit to prop up the Cuban economy.

Cuba joined China's Belt and Road Initiative in 2018, and China has since invested in several strategic infrastructure projects on the island, including major projects in transportation, port ...

WASHINGTON -- Suspicions that China is operating intelligence collection outposts in Cuba have renewed concerns over its efforts to establish a global network for power projection amid growing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence-gat ...

MEXICO CITY -- The Group of 77 developing countries and China held a ministerial meeting in Cuba on Tuesday to discuss environmental issues, as the socialist Caribbean nation seeks to lead like ...