Trump: China’s bases in Cuba are the biggest threat to America.
“Donald Trump”, the former president of the United States and one of the main candidates of the Republican Party for the 2024 elections, claimed that the presence of Chinese military forces in Cuba is the biggest threat to the United States.
He said to his supporters in Philadelphia: They (the Chinese) have built a military base in Cuba, and they are conducting military operations; In Cuba, it means 90 miles from our shores. This is the biggest threat I can imagine. The media is hiding this issue and the threat because Joe Biden’s administration is very fragile in this regard.
Trump also threatened last week (if he wins the 2024 presidential election) that he will give the Chinese government two days to remove all its military installations from Cuba, otherwise, he will impose tariffs and taxes on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods.
Last week, the American “Wall Street Journal” newspaper, citing intelligence and security officials of this country, claimed that with the possible construction of a joint military base between China and Cuba, Chinese military forces are approaching American soil. According to these officials, “China and Cuba are discussing the construction of a joint military base on Cuban soil. The progress of these talks has been high, but the final result has not yet been reached.
According to the Wall Street Journal, US intelligence and security officials warned that this action by China and Cuba is a warning for Washington because this move leads to the deployment of Chinese military, security, and intelligence forces 100 miles off the coast of the US state of Florida.
This Wall Street Journal report was published while US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was on a two-day trip to China and met and talked with senior officials and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
According to CNN’s website, Xi Jinping told the US Secretary of State in this meeting: The world needs stable China-US relations and whether China and the US can get along has an impact on the future and destiny of mankind. China respects the interests of the United States and does not challenge or seek to replace the United States. Similarly, the United States should respect China and not harm China’s legitimate rights and interests.
Anthony Blinken also said in this regard: Washington does not support the independence and secession of Taiwan. We agree on the need to establish stability in relations with China.
Hua Chunying, the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, at the same time Anthony Blinken met with Xi Jinping, expressed hope that this meeting would be beneficial to the stability of the relations between the two countries. Hua tweeted: Xi Jinping is meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. The Chinese president has said that intergovernmental interactions should always be based on mutual respect and honesty. I hope that Blinken’s visit will contribute significantly to the stability of China-US relations.
After the visit of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Beijing in 2018, Blinken’s visit to China yesterday is considered the first visit of the US Secretary of State to Beijing. Pompeo followed the strategy of confronting China after that trip and at the same time as the last years of the presidency of Donald Trump, the former US president, and since then, the Biden administration has continued this radical policy and even in some areas, including Export sanctions aimed at limiting the purchase and use of advanced Beijing-made microchips for “military applications” went further.
Blinken had previously met with the Communist Party’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, as well as Chinese Foreign Minister Chin Kang. Tensions between these two major world economies have intensified in recent years over issues such as trade, technology, and of course Taiwan.
Chinese state television (CCTV) also wrote that Wang said in his meeting with Blinken that Beijing will not make any compromises on the Taiwan issue.
