Why is the US slow to comment after accusations that China set up a spy station in Cuba?

The South China Morning Post reported that US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on June 12 that information related to this base was too sensitive.

As a result, the US government initially failed to respond to the Wall Street Journal when it reported that Beijing and Havana had signed a secret agreement to set up a facility in Cuba to collect electronic signals in the southeastern United States.

"This information is of such a sensitive nature that we simply cannot go into detail, even to help inform the [ Wall Street Journal ] story," Mr. Kirby said.

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After the article appeared on June 8, Mr. Kirby said the administration had worked hard with the intelligence community to reduce the level of secrecy of the documents to make the information public.

A few days later, a White House official confirmed that China had been operating a monitoring station in Cuba since at least 2019. The person said the Wall Street Journal report was inaccurate in that it was not a new development, but had been going on for several years and was fully documented in US intelligence files.

US says China has been operating a spy station in Cuba since 2019

China's Foreign Ministry said on June 12 that it was unaware of such a basis, and condemned the US's "secret actions" in Cuba.

On Cuba's side, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on June 12 once again denied information about the above spy base, considering it a US fabrication to justify Washington's decades-long economic embargo against Havana, according to Reuters.

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