on us, and we see their actions since last fall have really picked up. it s important we realize this is the greatest strategic threat we re going to face in this century, and we shouldn t be surprised by chinese actions. you know, and there was the spy balloon over the united states there s that listening poster. i don t know how we re going to describe it in cue ba there s a supply balloon that flew over latin america, colombia, spotted seeing that. what s the internal calculus among u.s. intelligence officials on this type of story, china s ever growing presence with spy balloons and listening posts in latin america i think they see it as part of china s expansion as a power, growth as a power, and as a military power, an economic power, and also with intelligence, you know, capabilities the one thing i would say is the balloon is probably not at the
aggressively working to undermine the kind of international order that in many ways benefits everybody. in chinese surveillance in the united states has been in the news. the spy balloon. there was a story that came out about china potentially using cuba to spy on the u.s. as a base of operations. does china need to be confronted on this? what if anything can the biden administration accomplish really, other than simply saying, please stop doing this? with the spy balloon, that was a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty. if the u.s. had floated a spy balloon like that over china, they would have shot it down immediately. the cuba issue is a little tougher. certainly, we don t like china having listening posts in cuba just like we don t like them in taiwan. and we are outside of chinese territory, we are in a sense spying on them. and that s what countries do.
base is on the agenda? if only we knew exactly what was on the agenda right now, chris. you can assume a number of things including this base will be among the things that he speaks with his counterpart in this upcoming visit. now, what we learned about this story, last week after the wall street journal first put out the story that china was in the final stages of discussions with cuba about some sort of an eavesdropping location on cuba, the white house, the pentagon, others in the biden administration all called the story inaccurate. what we learned over the weekend, chris, was in fact china does have one of these listening posts in cuba and has had it there for years. in fact, in 2019 according to an administration official they even upgraded it in some way. so it is certainly the fact, according to these officials, that china is using that as a location to gather, whether it s sensory information, communications, listening to cell phones. it s not lost on, i m sure, our viewer
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