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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchew with Gordon Chang, my colleague and co-host.

We're very pleased to welcome the vice president of the Lexington Institute, Rebecca Grant, to remark upon a Reuters headline within these hours.

China is quietly supplanting Russia as Cuba's main benefactor.

The graph that is most telling is

hours over rutted roads inland from Havana,

the small Cuban city of Habanico is a snapshot

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