Cuban diplomacy called yesterday Thursday ‘False and non-existent’ US press report on purported deal allowing China to set up spy base on the island, while the White House and the Pentagon assured that “this is not accurate.”

“The American newspaper Wall Street Journal published (…) completely false and non-existent information, according to which there is an agreement between Cuba and to China of a military nature for setting up an alleged spy base,” Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cosio told reporters in Havana.

Cuba”rejects any foreign military presence in Latin America“including numerous US military bases and troops,” he added, appreciating that “this sort of slander is often made up by US officials.”

According to a Wall Street Journal report cited two anonymous sources US government secret agreement provides for the creation of listening station connection on a Caribbean island about 200 kilometers off the coast of Florida, where they important US military installations.

The financial paper added that China, with which the US is in increasingly fierce competition, will give Cuba “billions of dollars” to build the base.

The American television company CNN also spoke about such an agreement, citing “sources close to the US special services.”

“The US has been briefed on the existence of this plan in recent weeks,” the network says, but “it’s not clear if China has already started building an intercept base.”

OUR White House assured yesterday Thursday that WSJ history is ‘inaccurate’.

“I saw the article. it’s not accurate“, – said the representative of the National Security Council under the President of the United States John Kirby into the microphone MSNBC.

“What I can tell you is that our administration has been concerned from day one about China’s actions to increase its influence around the world, especially in our hemisphere,” Mr. Kirby said. “We are following this very closely,” he added.

“According to the information we have, it’s not accurate. We have not been informed of any facilities in China and Cuba, of any spy bases,” Pentagon spokesman Wing Commander Pat Ryder said at a press conference, adding that Washington is “constantly” monitoring Beijing’s relations with Havana.

“Deeply Concerned”

However, Democratic Senator Mark Warner and fellow Republican Marco Rubio, who chair the Senate Intelligence Committee, said they were “deeply concerned” by the information published by the Wall Street Journal.

“The United States must respond to China’s continued brazen attacks on our national security,” the two senators said.