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Weekly Report - 18 September 2025 (WR-25-37)

CUBA: Leaning on China

This week Cuba’s defence minister, General Álvaro López Miera, met his Chinese peer Admiral Dong Jun in Beijing where he was attending the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, a high-level security and defence forum. The meeting follows a flurry of visits to China, with which Cuba was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations in 1960, by top Cuban officials in recent weeks. These include President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who held a meeting with President Xi Jinping on 4 September, during which the two leaders pronounced bilateral relations to be “at their best historical moment”. This shoring up of cooperation across areas from energy to security indicates how, in the face of Cuba’s economic collapse and tightening US sanctions, China is proving an increasingly important partner, particularly as Venezuela’s economic crisis has left another of the island’s traditional allies unable to step up.

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