China has been spying on the U.S. from Cuba for years, according to a Biden administration official.
The admission came days after the Biden administration denied aon Thursday that China and Cuba had reached an agreement to put an electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba — calling the story inaccurate.
But on Saturday, the administration said that China has had a listening post in Cuba for years, that it was a problem the administration had “inherited” and that“When this administration took office in January 2021, we were briefed on a number of sensitive [People's Republic of China] efforts around the world to expand its overseas logistics, basing, and collection infrastructure globally to allow the [People's Liberation Army] to project and sustain military power at greater distance,”...
"This is an issue that this administration inherited," the official added."It was our assessment that, despite awareness of the basing efforts and some attempts to address this challenge in the past administration, we were not making enough progress and needed a more direct approach." As for why the White House, Pentagon and others all flatly denied the Journal's reporting despite knowing that China has been spying from Cuba for years, the official said the Journal story was inaccurate because it called the eavesdropping a new development.
“This is an ongoing issue, and not a new development, and the arrangement as characterized in the reporting does not comport with our understanding," the official said,
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