China denies a new report linking the CCP to four sites in Cuba allegedly used to spy on the US

China is denying a new report linking him to four bases in Cuba that a think tank says allow the PCC to spy on the US

The Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report last week detailing the facilities in Cuba which he claims China may be using to collect signal intelligence (SIGINT) on the US

“The cooperation between China and Cuba is superior, does not target any third party, and does not allow any malicious slander of third parties,” Chinese Foreign Minister Mao Ning told reporters on Wednesday.

Cuban Foreign Minister Carlos de Cossio claimed that reports of Chinese espionage centers in Cuba came from “Cuba’s enemies” in the US “as a way to justify the criminal policy of economic aggression. It is absolutely fake”.

CSIS analyzed more than a dozen “places of interest” in Cuba and found four most likely to support China and its espionage ambitions.

“These places have undergone noticeable improvements in recent years, even as Cuba has faced an increasingly dire economic outlook that has brought it closer to China,” he added. the report the authors said.

Each of the four sites had “observable SIGINT instrumentation,” a clear physical security infrastructure, and other signs of intelligence gathering.

One such station located on a hill overlooking Havana, Bejucal, has for years been suspected of having ties to Chinese intelligence. The complex gained notoriety for housing Soviet missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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During the 2016 presidential debates, Sen. Marco RubioR-Fla., called on Cuba to “(expel) this Chinese listening station in Bejucal.”

According to CSIS findings, satellite images show the site was active as early as March 2024 and for a long time. There are at least five entrances to underground facilities at the base, but what the facilities contain could not be discerned from satellite imagery. Antennas dot the ground, including satellite dishes used to intercept satellite communications.

With Havana located just 100 miles from the coast from Floridathe site could be used to collect data on US rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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The United States and China are locked in a space race, and rocket launches that deliver American satellites into space are likely to generate a high level of interest within the CCP.

Elsewhere on the opposite side of the island, east of the city of Santiago de Cuba, a large radio signal search technology project is being built, capable of detecting signals between 3,000 and 8,000 nautical miles away. distance

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Cuba has a history of allowing US adversaries to use its soil to spy on US communications. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union operated a SIGINT facility at the Lourdes Signals Intelligence Complex near Havana. This site monitored US satellites and intercepted sensitive military and commercial telecommunications.

In recent decades, the alliance between China and Cuba has grown, with China providing some $7.8 billion in development funding to the island nation.