The Spy Island Next Door
The Cold War did not end in Cuba so much as change patrons, technologies, and uniforms. It is a dictatorship that has once again rented its strategic geography to an enemy of the United States.The relationship between Havana and Beijing is too often treated as an economic partnership between two distant communist governments or as an expression of Cuba’s chronic search for foreign subsidies. That interpretation misses the essential point.
- ▪The Cold War did not end in Cuba so much as change patrons, technologies, and uniforms.
- ▪It is a dictatorship that has once again rented its strategic geography to an enemy of the United States.The relationship between Havana and Beijing is too often treated as an economic partnership between two distant communist governments o
- ▪That interpretation misses the essential point.
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| Original publisher | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics |
| Canonical URL | https://spectator.org/the-spy-island-next-door/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:04:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T02:23:20.296Z |
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The Cold War did not end in Cuba so much as change patrons, technologies, and uniforms. The enormous Soviet listening station at Lourdes was closed more than two decades ago, but the infrastructure, trained personnel, intelligence culture, and geographic advantages that made the island valuable to Moscow survived under the control of a communist dictatorship that has now placed Cuban territory and technical capabilities at the service of the People’s Republic of China.The presence of hostile electronic installations in Cuba has taken on new urgency following President Trump’s recent alarms over an upsurge in Chinese electronic espionage and Cuban subversion in the U.S. Fresh U.S.
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