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Last Saturday, the Biden administration acknowledged the existence of a multi-billion dollar Chinese spy base in Cuba, the gateway to the United States, after calling it “inaccurate” Thursday’s Wall Street Journal report. .
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said China’s efforts to boost its espionage capabilities on the island, just 90 miles from the mainland, were an “ongoing issue” that would carry over to the Biden administration. admitted. He claimed that President Biden had instructed the team to approach the issue “quietly” and “discreetly”, starting with “diplomacy.” Kirby argued that these “diplomatic efforts have caused China to slow down.”
But the clumsy deception and hard-line stance toward China in order to keep diplomacy from derailing has left Biden and his team utterly incapable of defending America from the greatest security threat: Communist China. It just shows.
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves during an event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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With Secretary of State Anthony Brinken heading to Beijing for the weekend, the time has come to back up diplomacy with full-fledged fighting power. That is the only way to threaten China into serious negotiations.
Team Biden is well aware that China has maintained a military electronic wiretapping facility in Cuba for over a decade. Any serious military intelligence analyst knows that. Former Rear Admiral John Kirby, who served in both the Biden and Obama administrations, has either slept on intelligence briefings for years or kept the truth out of the American public. So did Joe Biden.
As a former senior Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) official bound by confidentiality obligations, I cannot reveal any details about China’s spy base in Cuba. However, here are some open source reports that Fox News Digital readers should be aware of. A 2011 unclassified report by the U.S. Army War College Institute for Strategic Studies warned that China had “at least three Soviet-era surveillance facilities in Cuba: Lourdes, Bejucar and Santiago de Cuba.” These monitoring stations were intended to “facilitate” China’s operations against the United States in the event of a significant deterioration in US-China relations.
The Cuban military base in Bejucar is reportedly home to a controversial Chinese listening station. (Reuters)
According to the 2015 Oxford University book China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy and Politics in the Digital Realm, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) operates Signals Intelligence Bureaus (SIGINT in intelligence terms) in Bejucar and Santiago, Cuba. are doing. In March 2016, Florida Senator Marco Rubio indirectly acknowledged the existence of Bejukal’s SIGINT post, arguing that “this Chinese listening station of Bejukal” should be kicked out. country’s.
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China’s emphasis on human espionage, which gives it a decisive advantage over the United States, has 200,000 US intelligence agents in China, and 2 million agents in China. China’s second-best spying ability is intercepting US communications.
Stealing Washington’s secrets is the primary mission of the Bejucar and Santiago spy bases manned by Chinese military SIGINT officers. Located just 90 miles from Florida, the Bejucal SIGINT post allows Chinese intelligence to monitor electronic communications and monitor U.S. shipping traffic throughout the southeastern United States, where many military bases are located. Just 525 miles from U.S. Army Central Command in Tampa, it is an ideal location for intercepting signals, tracking ballistic missiles, and even monitoring U.S. space launches.
Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan pose with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and his wife Lis Cuesta Perasa in Beijing on November 25, 2022. (Shen Hong/Xinhua, via Getty Images)
This SIGINT base is regularly upgraded with new monitoring technologies. In 2017-2018, a new ‘radome’ steerable dish antenna and its spherical enclosure were added. Examples of Bejucal spy tools include signal interception, missile tracking, satellite uplinks and downlinks, radio communications, and space object tracking.
Recent upgrades have expanded these capabilities to include jamming satellite communications, a critical component of the wartime command and control function upon which the United States relies for all aspects of its war doctrine.
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Buildings at a Cuban military base near Bejucar, June 12, 2023. (Reuters/Dave Sherwood)
The modernized SIGINT post is therefore a direct enabler of the space warfare doctrine that the Chinese government has been operating since January 2007, when the Chinese military surprised the world by testing a new kind of weapon: a space weapon. be. In this test, the Chinese military launched a ballistic missile (named SC-19 by the U.S. military) carrying a 600-kilogram dynamic demolition vehicle and launched its own decommissioned weather satellite Fengyun 1C (FY-1C). was destroyed to pieces.
Meanwhile, Team Biden has been ignoring multiple signposts, signs and warnings (I&W in intelligence parlance), the upgrade of China’s SIGINT post in Cuba being just one of them, but an important piece of the puzzle. Only. The Chinese government has transitioned to war mode and is preparing for a battle with US forces over Taiwan.
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently set up a “war cabinet” to direct the Chinese military to prepare for war. During a recent visit to the Chinese military’s operations command center, Xi said, “The entire military… must focus all its energy on fighting the war.”
To bolster its combat capabilities, China is beefing up its space battle order, doubling the number of satellites in orbit from about 250 in 2019 to 499 in 2021, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency. there is Satellites provide critical wartime functions such as missile warning, navigation, communications, reconnaissance, and command and control, among others.
Special operations soldiers of the Chinese naval fleet at the port of Zhoushan, eastern China’s Zhejiang province, April 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Jiangshan via Getty Images)
In mid-January, the Chinese navy conducted a series of military exercises in the South China Sea that the PLA characterized as “face-to-face exercises aimed at realistic combat.” On May 30, Mr. Xi instructed his national security team to prepare for a “worst case scenario” amid the growing threats China claims to face.
Despite these clear signs of imminent conflict, Biden’s Pentagon is depleting critical arms stockpiles to dangerous levels by sending weapons into Ukraine to fight Russia, and potentially Within a week, the U.S. military will run out of existing precision weapons in a war with Russia. China, according to a prominent Washington, D.C.-based think tank. All this despite China already having a military advantage over the United States with more ships, more aircraft and both offensive and defensive missiles.
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A Chinese warship sails during a military exercise near the Taiwan-controlled Matsu archipelago, near the Chinese coast, April 8. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
As the Chinese Communist Party pursues its decades-old goal of establishing control over Taiwan, resorting to diplomacy to persuade Beijing not to target the U.S. mainland is wishful thinking. According to a recent Politico article, “Defense Fears Possible War with China,” Biden’s military officials also recognize the severity of the situation.
The article said that in dozens of wargame scenarios, “the United States … lost thousands of military personnel, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft,” leading to a “horrific and bloody” relationship between the United States and China. Simulating conflict.
Having participated in the Sino-American war simulation as a senior DIA intelligence officer, I can attest that the results Politico paints are realistic.
Team Biden is incapable of countering the strategic threat China poses to America. Lying and playing semantic games will not help focus the American public on the need to prepare, nor will it appease China.
If America is serious about neutralizing foreign threats, we must set up a new team in charge of US security.
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