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#PRC: CUBA EMBRACES CHINA. Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

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#PRC: CUBA EMBRACES CHINA. Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-cuban-radar-site-near-us-military-base-could-aid-china-spying-think-tank-2024-07-02/

1962 Soviet freighter enroute to Cuba

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0:00.0

This is a CVS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang at Gordon

0:09.0

G. Chang my colleague and co-host, Reuters, Dateline within these last hours, new Cuban radar site near US

0:16.7

military base could aid China spying according to a think tank in Washington.

0:23.0

We're looking at a distinguished think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

0:28.0

That's very high government, either in government or out of government.

0:32.0

We welcome someone to help us interpret why now, why Cuba.

0:37.2

Rebecca Grant, Vice President of the Lexington Institute.

0:40.8

Rebecca, we both can review the Cuban missile crisis of 1963. We can look at the Bay of

0:46.8

pigs of 1962. We can look at Castro in 1959 in Harlem. And Cuba has remained a quandary for the US government. Does it also

0:56.7

present a puzzle to the US government what is to be done given this report of a

1:01.4

radar site near a US military base.

1:04.8

Good evening to you.

1:05.8

Good evening.

1:06.8

And Cuba remains a problem because it is so close to Florida and John Florida is a treasure trove of US military

1:19.4

secrets and capabilities you may not think of it that way, but let me

1:23.8

rattle off just a few. You've got the Egland Weapons Test Range, of course

1:28.7

the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Facilities. There's a submarine base there, several Air Force and other military bases,

1:36.8

and more aerospace manufacturing than you would think all the major companies have manufacturing components there

1:44.5

part of the B21 bomber is made there. Florida is a treasure trove and this

1:48.9

radar site that China is building has the ability to look pretty deep into the United States

1:58.3

and also to help Chinese military forces or Russian forces if they wanted to operate in those

2:07.4

waters in that airspace.

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