The Biden administration is voicing its concerns about proposed Chinese military facilities in Cuba after downplaying the existence of such facilities in recent weeks.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he raised the issue with China’s communist leadership during a trip to Beijing over the weekend.
“This is something we’re going to be monitoring very, very closely and we’ve been very clear about that,” Blinken said during a June 20 press conference in London.
“We will protect our homeland. We will protect our interests.”
Blinken’s comments referred to reports that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is working to develop a spying facility and military training base in Cuba, 100 miles off the coast of Florida….