We recently looked at some of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s comments to Antony Blinken about “understandings” that he had established with Joe Biden. There was even talk of a possible upcoming visit to the United States, potentially including a meeting with the President. That seemed to offer the perception of a willingness on Xi’s part to thaw relations between the two countries and ease tensions. But at the same time, we learned that the Chinese were allegedly working to establish a spy base in Cuba, right off of our southern shore. And now, in an even starker contrast with Xi’s words to Blinken, it’s being reported that China is working with the Cubans to establish a “joint military training base” in Cuba. Which, if you hadn’t already deduced it, would mean that China would be stationing its own troops barely one hundred miles from the shores of Florida and barely outside of our territorial waters. (Wall Street Journal, subscription required)Read More
And now China wants to station troops in Cuba
