CUBA-US-CHINA-DEFENCE-INTELLIGENCE

Cuban Foreign Vice Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Havana on June 8, 2023. Cuba on Thursday rejected as "mendacious and unfounded" information published in the US press about an alleged agreement between Beijing and Havana to install a Chinese espionage base on the island. The Wall Street Journal reported that Beijing and Havana have entered into a secret agreement for a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility on the Caribbean island that could monitor communications across the southeastern United States. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP) (Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)