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Phoebe Zhang

China’s state security chief, Chen Yixin, has met his Cuban counterpart in Beijing and pledged better intelligence sharing to help the US neighbour maintain social stability, against a backdrop of heightened pressure from the Donald Trump administration.
Chen and Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, Cuba’s interior minister, opened the meeting by marking 65 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, according to a report posted to social media on Monday by China’s Ministry of State Security.
Cuba was the first country in the western hemisphere to establish diplomatic relations with China, and the two countries had remained good friends, Chen said, while Alvarez praised China’s achievements over the years.
“China has achieved remarkable accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention and has become a role model for socialist countries,” Alvarez said.
Chen also said that China was ready to work with Cuba on the understandings reached by President Xi Jinping and the Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez at their meeting in May.
“China is ready to work with Cuba to follow on the important mutual understandings reached by [the two leaders], further strengthen cooperation in the field of intelligence and security, safeguard the national security and social stability of the two countries and make new progress in building a China-Cuba community with a shared future,” he said.
Also on Friday, Alvarez met Wang Xiaohong, China’s public security minister, who said China was willing to increase personnel exchanges and build more law enforcement capacity.
At the May meeting, on the sidelines of the celebrations in Moscow marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in WWII, Xi said Cuba should work with China to “oppose power politics and unilateral bullying and safeguard international fairness and justice”.
“China firmly supports Cuba in upholding its national sovereignty, opposing external interference and blockade, and advancing its economic and social development,” he said.

Xi’s remarks came days after a congressional hearing in Washington over a report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a US think tank, that alleged the presence of Chinese surveillance sites in Cuba.
The think tank’s researchers used commercial satellite imagery to identify what they called four suspected signals intelligence facilities in Cuba, including one near the town of Bejucal that appeared to have been significantly upgraded in recent months.
Lawmakers at the hearing, led by the House Homeland Security subcommittee on transport and maritime security, urged the Trump administration to take a firmer stance.
“This collaboration represents one of the most brazen intelligence operations ever attempted near the American mainland,” said US Congressman Carlos Gimenez, a Florida Republican who chairs the subcommittee.
A week after the hearing, Xi opened the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States forum in Beijing with a call for countries to stand together to promote global peace and stability.
In a veiled reference to the US, Xi stressed in his remarks that “there were no winners in tariff wars”.


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Chen Yixin says Beijing is ready to work on the ‘important mutual understandings’ reached at leaders’ meeting in May


Chen Yixin says Beijing is ready to work on the ‘important mutual understandings’ reached at leaders’ meeting in May.


China’s spy chief pledges more intelligence sharing with Cuba, months after US jitters

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Chen Yixin says Beijing is ready to work on the ‘important mutual understandings’ reached at leaders’ meeting in May