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Rubio announced on the State Council official website that 5 Cuban entities and 8 individuals have been sanctioned for their involvement in procuring weapons from the Cuban regime.

After a US reconnaissance plane collided with a Chinese interceptor near Hainan in April 2001, Jiang Zemin used the incident to strike a new espionage agreement during his visit to Cuba, after which shipments of Chinese weapons and equipment to Cuba increased sharply.

U.S. intelligence agencies were already aware of China's espionage and military activities in Cuba as early as 2001. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Castro regime lost its backer, and Beijing seized the opportunity to turn Cuba into an anti-U.S. frontline base, upgrading its equipment through secret agreements.