This is a center that analysts do not rule out could actually serve as a spy base for Beijing just 90 miles from the United States.
According to Sputnik, there is a memorandum of understanding with China due to Beijing’s interest in installing a telescope in Cuba and its BeiDou satellite positioning system, which has been in operation for three years and which provides global coverage to China and which would serve as a complement to Moscow’s GLONASS, which already operates in the island.
It has been reported that China has at least 11 facilities in Latin America for data collection through signal systems. The most important would be in Santiago de Chile.
Curiously, the revelation of China’s interest in installing more of its technology on Cuban territory follows recent accusations by the United States that Beijing has an espionage center on a military base on the island and that it plans to establish at least one intelligence unit. military training there.
Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat recalls that China has a strategic and military interest in space and has deployed several astronomical observatories around the world.
The Russian publication Sputnik also said that Moscow plans to install another two of its telescopes in Cuban territory and that the Astronomical Observatory of the Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy on the island would be transferred in the future to the Picadura Valley, between Havana and Matanzas. a location, as the Diario de Cuba website draws attention, which places this observatory curiously in front of La Florida, the headquarters here in Miami of the United States Southern Command.
It was recently revealed that Russia has launched a new station in Cuba aimed at spying on the United States.
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