White House Defends Its Deceptive Denial of Chinese Spy Base in Cuba: ‘Absolutely Not’ Beneficial for Public to Know
John Kirby railed against “shameful” leaks indicating that China is working on building, or may already have, a spy base in Cuba.
John Kirby railed against “shameful” leaks indicating that China is working on building, or may already have, a spy base in Cuba.
The Global Times, a Chinese government propaganda newspaper, dismissed a Wall Street Journal report accusing Beijing of setting up a “spy base” in Cuba as an attempt to sabotage a rumored visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China this month.
Honduras Foreign Minister Enrique Reina told China’s state-run Global Times his country is joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said he “ignore[s]” concerns about the growing friendship between his country and China.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Latin America on Sunday to meet with the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda outlet shared stories on Thursday of Chinese “netizens” on regime-controlled social media mocking New York City for being engulfed in a wildfire smog plume flying in from Canada, declaring the wildfires a “losing-face” moment for America.
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.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) encouraged congressional efforts to implement American anti-slavery laws against Shein.
China’s government-run Global Times newspaper on Thursday rejected a flurry of reports in American corporate media claiming that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would soon visit Beijing, dismissing them as an attempt by the American government to “test” the Communist Party’s reaction to such a trip.
Communist Cuba, long disregarded as a priority by leftist President Joe Biden, boasted of taking on a role as a “key partner” to Russia on Wednesday, shortly before a bombshell report claimed the island would soon host a Chinese “spy base.”
Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled government sought a court injunction Monday against the 2019 pro-democracy anthem “Glory to Hong Kong.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday local time for the first of his major engagements in Saudi Arabia, reportedly discussing, among other issues, “progress on human rights” and “clean energy.”
Members of the Uyghur community and supporters organized a protest in front of the White House on Sunday urging the administration of President Joe Biden to take “meaningful action” to end the genocide of their people in China, as well as condemn American corporations such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Tesla for profiting from business with the Communist Party.
Chinese National Defense Minister Li Shangfu, making his debut on the international stage, told attendees at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Sunday that the communist nation’s military would attack “without any hesitation” against any allies of Taiwan seeking to support the nation’s independence from Beijing.
The Nicaraguan human rights collective Nicaragua Nunca Mas (“Nicaragua Never Again”) released a report this week accusing the communist Ortega regime of using 40 different types of torture on dozens of political prisoners.
The tide of protests and other acts of dissent — including posting banners, distributing petitions, or individual protest posts that grew tremendously in China throughout 2022 — has yet to ebb, the Freedom House China Dissent Monitor revealed in its latest update this week.
Elon Musk’s business dealings in China, and occupied East Turkistan in particular, make Tesla an “accomplice” to the ongoing genocide of the region’s indigenous population by the Communist Party, Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan government-in-exile, told Breitbart News.
The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders published a study this week, based on interviews with Cuban political prisoners and other empirical data, finding that the communist regime tortures 100 percent of its political prisoners through a wide variety of tactics including beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation, rape and threats of rape, and physical attacks on their relatives.
Space entrepreneur, car manufacturer, and social media personality Elon Musk culminated a trip to communist China on Thursday after meeting a parade of China’s most powerful Communist Party officials, including Politburo members, and enjoying a 16-course feast in Beijing that was the toast of the state-controlled Weibo social media site.
The Communist Party of China deployed Foreign Minister Qin Gang to meet car, space, and social media industry personality Elon Musk in Beijing on Tuesday, shortly after Musk’s arrival in the country.
Videos surfacing on social media on Tuesday revealed a massive uprising in southwestern Yunnan province, China, in which thousands of people attacked armored riot police preventing them from entering a mosque the Communist Party has targeted for demolition.
The former head of China’s Center for Disease Control (CDC), Gao Fu (or George Gao), told the BBC in a podcast published on Tuesday that scientists should not rule out the possibility that the Wuhan coronavirus began spreading as a result of a laboratory leak.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba published a live video on Facebook this weekend defending the Chinese Communist Party from allegations that a special delegation from Beijing that visited Kyiv this month pressured Ukraine to cede occupied territories to Russia.
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang vowed on Friday that his country would invest heavily in the “post-war reconstruction” of Ethiopia, which recently exited a two-year war between its government, supported by neighboring Eritrea, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
A group of at least 14 Cuban citizens reportedly signed contracts to enlist in Russia’s armed forces and and fight in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the American Radio Televisión Martí reported on Thursday, claiming Russia offered the Cubans a fast track towards Russian citizenship in exchange.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper weighed in on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing his candidacy for President of the United States on Thursday, dismissing him as a “spare wheel” for Republicans in the event that frontrunner Donald Trump goes to jail.
The Chinese state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times continued its furious campaign against Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid on Friday, defending Chinese moviegoers from accusations of racism for their disinterest in the film, starring black actress Halle Bailey.
The Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper condemned Disney on Thursday for its “lazy and irresponsible” live-action remakes, calling the decision to cast black actress Halle Bailey as the title character in The Little Mermaid a decision driven by “political correctness” that alienates Chinese viewers.
Mexican leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Tuesday that his country had imported 700 Cuban slave doctors, who were now active in Mexican hospitals.
A study in China’s Journal of Test and Measurement Technology concluded, citing a series of software simulations, that the communist nation’s hypersonic missile technology could destroy the formidable USS Gerald R. Ford carrier fleet by evading the ships’ defense systems, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
The communist Castro regime admitted this weekend that Cuba’s population is in steep decline, fueled by accelerated growth in the elderly population, low birth rates, and the biggest migrant crisis in the nation’s history.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) opened its annual World Health Assembly on Sunday, once again excluding the nation of Taiwan – which attempted to warn the W.H.O. of an infectious disease spreading in Wuhan, China, during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic – as a result of Chinese pressure.
Canada’s National Post and Canadian Press reported on Friday that a Montreal charity suspected of potentially hosting an illegal Chinese police station received up to $200,000 in Canadian taxpayer funding.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) stripped China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) of its eligibility to receive American taxpayer funding for animal experiments, public health advocates confirmed this week.
Communist China’s special representative for Eurasian Affairs, Li Hui, held a series of meetings on Thursday in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top cabinet members, urging the country to “build up trust” with Russia, which has been staging a prolonged invasion of Ukraine for nearly a decade.
Canada is preparing for a fresh round of elections next month by empowering a task force to prioritize fighting foreign interference and ordering its spy service to promptly disclose threats to any candidates — moves Ottawa deems necessary as evidence mounts of expansive Chinese government operations to influence Canadian politics.
The Chinese Communist Party appeared to belie panic over the growing popularity of stand-up comedy, an allegedly “Western” artform, in the country on Wednesday, celebrating a criminal investigation against such a comic for a joke mocking a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) slogan.
A Chinese Communist Party delegation led by former ambassador to Moscow Li Hui is expected to arrive in Kyiv, Ukraine, imminently, and spend two days there before heading to Poland on Friday.
The Communist Party of China confirmed that a delegation led by former ambassador to Moscow Li Hui would begin a tour on Monday of several European states, including Ukraine and Russia, in an attempt to galvanize “peace talks” between Kyiv and its Russian invaders.
A former aide to openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is now the senior official in the New York State Communist Party.