The strategic significance of such an agreement remains unclear. But China hawks in America are outraged:
said China had agreed to pay Cuba several billion dollars in the deal.
The strategic significance of such an agreement remains unclear. China has long been reported to have a small military presence in Cuba as well as access to listening stations at Bejucal, near Havana, and at Santiago de Cuba on its south-east coast. China is also thought to have several other such facilities around the world, including one in Argentina.
The reported Chinese plans in Cuba are also bound to provoke a strong political reaction in America given hawkish sentiment towards China among the public and on both sides of the aisle in Congress. Cuba’s involvement resonates all the more because of its role in the cold war, when the Soviet Union’s decision to deploy nuclear-capable missiles there in 1962 caused a stand-off with America that almost escalated into atomic war.
A listening station poses a negligible threat compared to nuclear missiles. Yet the potential for over-reaction in the current political climate became clear in February when an American fighter jet shot down a high-altitude balloon that the Pentagon said was part of a global Chinese spying operation and had been monitoring American military bases.
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