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US: China upgraded Cuban spy operations in 2019

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez with China's Xi Jinping stand during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 25, 2022. [AP Photo]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that China conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019.

Blinken told reporters that when the Biden administration took office in January 2021, it was briefed on a "number of sensitive efforts by Beijing around the world" to expand China's overseas operations for collecting intelligence.

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