China and Cuba on Secret Spy Base Report: U.S. 'Illegally Occupies' Guantánamo

The communist governments of China and Cuba issued statements on Thursday and Friday denying a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, that the Castro regime had agreed to allow Beijing to install a secret “spy base” on the island. China is one of Cuba’s top benefactors, believed to be second in influence on the Cuban Communist Party only to Russia. Cuba is a member of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global plot to ensnare poor countries in predatory loans nominally meant to be used in...