Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged on Monday that China upgraded its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019.
Blinken’s admission appears to be a stark divergence from the picture painted by multiple Biden administration officials who denied last week that Beijing and Havana had agreed to a deal for this facility to be built.
“I can tell you based on the information that we have that that is not accurate, that we are not aware of China and Cuba developing any type of spy stations,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said last Thursday. “Separately, I would say that the relationship that those two countries share is something that we continuously monitor.”
"We were as forthcoming as we should have been given the nature of this information," Kirby told reporters."Sadly, not everybody seems to take it as seriously as we do because, clearly, there's a source or sources out there that think it's somehow beneficial to put this kind of information into the public stream, and it's absolutely not."
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