According to reports, China and Cuba reached an agreement allowing China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, less than 100 miles from Florida.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., released a joint statement calling on the Biden administration to take steps to prevent Chinese intelligence services from establishing such a presence.
Warner is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Rubio is the vice chairman of the committee.
“We are deeply disturbed by reports that Havana and Beijing are working together to target the United States and our people. The United States must respond to China’s ongoing and brazen attacks on our nation’s security. We must be clear that it would be unacceptable for China to establish an intelligence facility within 100 miles of Florida and the United States, in an area also populated with key military installations and extensive maritime traffic. We urge the Biden administration to take steps to prevent this serious threat to our national security and sovereignty,” the senators said in the joint statement.
