Beijing, Cuba, and Biden administration "scuttle" WSJ scoop on Chinese spy base in Havana
White House spokesman John Kirby today called the Wall Street Journal scoop 'inaccurate', words similar to those of the Pentagon, without going into the merits of the alleged 'inaccuracies'
Yesterday, China's Foreign Ministry said that "spreading rumors and slander" is a common tactic of the U.S. "hacker empire," following the Wall Street Journal's scoop that China has reached an agreement with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island. "As we all know, spreading rumors and slander is a common tactic of the United States," said Wang Wenbin, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. "The United States is the most powerful hacking empire in the world and a real monitoring nation." Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio dismissed the report as "totally mendacious and unfounded," calling it a U.S. fabrication to justify Washington's decades-long economic embargo against the island.