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China Says US No Stranger To "Spreading Rumours" After Cuba Story

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(MNI) London-Wires carrying comments from the Chinese Foreign Ministry regarding thebombshell storyfrom the WSJ published on 8 June claiming that Beijing has reached an agreement with Cuba to place an electronic surveillance station on the island that would cover the entirety of the southeastern United States. Foreign Ministry states that "spreading rumours and slander" is a common US tactic, and that the US should stop interfering in Cuba's internal affairs.

  • There remains significant flux in US-China relations, with heightened military tensions in the Taiwan strait and the refusal of the two nations' secretaries of defense to hold talks at the Shangri-La Dialogue coming at the same time asspeculation of a tripfrom US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Beijing as soon as next week.

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