China is reportedly in talks with Cuba about setting up a spy base on the island roughly 100 miles from Florida.
The Soviet Union operated a signals intelligence base in Cuba for decades.
It's a move that would follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, which operated a spy base on the island for decades.
US officials told The Wall Street Journal that China and Cuba have reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement in principle on the establishment of the base.
China officially only has one overseas military base, an installation in Djibouti that it has expanded since it first opened in 2017.
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