The "Wall Street Journal" newspaper reported yesterday that China is establishing a military base in Cuba and the United States fears that the communist country will use the site to spy and collect information about what is happening in the southeastern regions of the United States.
According to reports, the 2 communist countries reached an agreement after China pledged to pay impoverished Cuba several billion dollars.
We spoke with John Mills, a retired colonel in the US Army and the author of the book The Nation Will Follow, who says, among other things, that apparently China already has such bases in Cuba and the Bahamas and that the US should now respond with serious measures.
Mills adds that the Chinese move reminds him of the Cold War when in 1962 the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.