{"id":160014,"date":"2023-06-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=919538"},"modified":"2023-06-09T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"china-hacker-empire-us-is-spreading-rumours-with-talk-of-cuba-spy-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/06\/09\/china-hacker-empire-us-is-spreading-rumours-with-talk-of-cuba-spy-station\/","title":{"rendered":"China: \u2018Hacker empire\u2019 US is \u2018spreading rumours\u2019 with talk of Cuba spy station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>BEIJING, June 9 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry on Friday said \"spreading rumours and slander\" is a common tactic of \"hacker empire\" the United States, after a media report that China has reached a deal with Cuba to set up an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island.<br \/>\nCiting U.S. officials familiar with classified intelligence, the Wall Street Journal said such a spy installation would allow Beijing to gather electronic communications from the southeastern United States, home to many U.S. military bases, as well as monitor ship traffic.<br \/>\nCuba and China have reached an agreement in principle, the U.S. officials said, with China to pay Cuba \"several billion dollars\" for the eavesdropping station, according to the Journal.<br \/>\nJohn Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, told Reuters on Thursday that the report was \"not accurate,\" but did not say what he thought was inaccurate.<br \/>\n\"As we all know, spreading rumours and slander is a common tactic of the United States,\" said Wang Wenbin, spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry.<br \/>\n\"The United States is also the most powerful hacker empire in the world, and also veritably a major monitoring nation.\"<br \/>\nThe reported deal could raise questions about a near-term visit to China that U.S. officials say Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning.<br \/>\nWashington and Beijing have been taking tentative steps to ease tensions that further soured after a suspected Chinese spy balloon crossed the United States early this year and prompted Blinken to scrap a previous visit to Beijing.<br \/>\nCuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio dismissed the report as \"totally mendacious and unfounded,\" calling it a U.S. fabrication meant to justify Washington's decades-old economic embargo against the island.<br \/>\nCuba rejects all foreign military presence in Latin America and the Caribbean, he said.<br \/>\nReporting by Liz Lee; Writing by Ryan Woo; Editing by Christopher Cushing<br \/>\nOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; China's foreign ministry on Friday said \"spreading rumours and slander\" is a common tactic of \"hacker empire\" the United States, after a media report that China has reached a deal with Cuba to set up an electronic eavesdrop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,144,586,872,194,1542,484,1367,1332],"tags":[2210,3686,3472,10539,3312,3929,10557,10315,2240,2172,10332,8399,3549,10336],"class_list":["post-160014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-economy","category-hacker","category-news-chinese-law","category-technology","category-united-states","category-usa","category-white-house","tag-america","tag-boycott","tag-chinese","tag-cuba","tag-electronics","tag-espionage","tag-latin-america","tag-media-intelligence","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-sanctions","tag-spy","tag-united-nations","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160015,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160014\/revisions\/160015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}