Intelligence: The New Cuban Threat
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July 3, 2025: Cuba has become the central asset for the new Chinese signals intelligence/SIGINT site that gathers information on American military operations throughout the southeastern United States. China built the island’s telecommunications infrastructure. Cuba’s sole internet provider is the Chinese Huawei firm. Cuba uses Huawei software to filter internet searches. By doing so, China created a system capable of surveillance and much more. This was obvious in mid-2021, when Cuban government officials shut down internet and telephone services, preventing Cuban protestors from communicating with anyone outside their island country.
This all began at the end of the 1990s when Cuba sought new partners to replace the defunct Soviet state. The Russians were once a valued communist ally. That is now over, never to return. Rescue came in the form of Chinese intelligence officials looking for a suitable place to set up a surveillance system that would monitor the Americans. By 2023 Cuba was a base for secret Chinese espionage operations. China paid Cuban officials billions of dollars for this opportunity. This money was welcomed because Cuba, since the 1960s, had cheated foreign companies out of billions of dollars by preventing these firms from getting their money and other assets out of the country. Cuban government officials simply seized foreign assets.
It wasn’t always this bad. In the 1950s Cuba had the largest economy in the Caribbean. When the communist rebels took over in 1959, the economy fell apart. Russian advisors arrived to establish and operate an efficient police state. While the Soviet Union eventually collapsed because of economic failure, they left behind all the tools and assets needed to create a Cuban police state. Cuban officials now controlled employment and any misbehavior or threat to the state meant the offenders were out of work. The government could also jail anyone for any reason at any time. The only ones getting rich were the Cuban officials who controlled the jobs and judicial system. This is still how it works in Cuba
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