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China is making heavy investments in airports, seaports, and other critical infrastructure in Latin America-especially Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, and Brazil.
In that year, Fidel Castro responded to China cutting rice shipments to Cuba by dismissing Mao Tse-Tung as a “senile idiot.” Fast-forward to this year: China is surpassing Spain as Cuba’s largest ...
The smell of garbage is overwhelming and intense under the Caribbean sun. The accumulated waste is such that an entire street ...
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.
BEIJING -- Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong met with Cuban Minister of Interior Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas in Beijing on Friday.
In July, Brazil hosted the seventeenth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, et al.) summit. Public opinion ...
There are signs that China is trying to spy on the US from Cuba. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses developments with correspondent Eyder Peralta, who recently met with Cuba's deputy foreign minister.
China to the rescue—as the US imposes more sanctions. Ad Policy A horse-drawn carriage passes a photovoltaic park in Yaguaramas, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba, where hundreds of workers are hastily ...
GOP lawmakers seek answers on China’s suspected surveillance site in Cuba, warning it could monitor U.S. military and disrupt communications in a crisis.
In mid-2023, the Joe Biden administration confirmed that China had been operating an intelligence post in Cuba since at least 2019 – reversing earlier denials and validating earlier media reporting.