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China's Spies Move to Cuba

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 2/7/2025 10:59:45 AM

The Chinese military is firmly embedded in a country not far from Key West, Florida. Forget Europe or the hotspots of East Asia and the Middle East, Marco Rubio's first foreign trip as secretary of state took him to one Caribbean and four Central American states. The tour tells us that the Trump foreign policy is focusing on the region closest to the America At the moment, Cuba needs Chinese cash and might therefore accede to granting China greater access to the island. [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio, however, is focused on the Caribbean basin, as the itinerary for his first trip shows.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: rikkitikki 2/7/2025 11:13:25 AM (No. 1891418)
And Cuba will probably house those Chinese spies in the same bungalows, in the same segregated suburbs on the outskirts of Havana, in which they housed the Russian spies back in the Cold War.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Hazymac 2/7/2025 11:25:48 AM (No. 1891437)
If Castro and his communist successors, in power since New Year's Day 1959, can be overthrown by pro-freedom forces, the Chicom problem solves itself. Cuba ought to be the jewel of the Caribbean. When will it be?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: planetgeo 2/7/2025 1:14:13 PM (No. 1891504)
I think we need another state. A warm weather one to offset the great State of Greenland.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Bur Oak 2/7/2025 2:18:46 PM (No. 1891524)
I hope they enjoy themselves in the workers' paradise of Cuba.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/7/2025 4:49:26 PM (No. 1891648)
If Trump offers them statehood you know they will take it.
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