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Senior Chinese military official to visit Cuba

October 23, 2011

Via Xinhuanet: Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, General Guo Boxiong left Beijing today to pay official goodwill visits to Cuba, Colombia and Peru. Guo was invited by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Colombia’s Defense Ministry and Peru’s Defense Ministry. Guo will meet state and military leaders and visit the armed forces and [...]

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China-Latin America military engagement

August 25, 2011

The U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute published today a monograph, entitled “China-Latin America Military Engagement: Good Will, Good Business, and Strategic Position,” that examines Chinese military involvement with Latin America. The monograph’s author’s, Dr. Evan Ellis of the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, provides a detailed, region-wide analysis of PRC military engagement with Latin America: While [...]

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Sino mil-tech development

August 25, 2011

The Pentagon released its annual report (Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China) to Congress, which assesses the “current and probable future course of military-technological development” of the Chinese military. Key points from the report: China’s leaders routinely emphasize the goal of reaching critical economic and military benchmarks by 2020 and eventually [...]

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PLA Deputy Chief of General Staff visits Cuba

December 19, 2010

Army General Raúl Castro met in Havana on Thursday with Chinese General Ma Xiaotian (Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army.) The Chinese military leader arrived on the island for a working visit on Monday at the invitation of Cuba’s military. Also at the Thursday meeting was Army Corps General Álvaro [...]

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Senior PLA officer visits to Cuba (2001-2008)

July 11, 2010

The following list 1 provides the number of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer visits to Cuba, from 2001 through 2008: Chief of the General Staff (1) Deputy Chiefs of the General Staff (1) General Political Department (GPD) Director and Deputies (2) General Logistics Department (GLD) Director and Deputies (1) GLD Political Commissar (PC) and Deputies (1) [...]

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CIA director and Cuban soap operas

July 27, 2009

Last September, Gen. Michael Hayden (Director, Central Intelligence Agency) addressed the ODNI Open Source Conference in Washington, D.C. about the importance of open source intelligence collection. General Hayden made an interesting anecdote (as follows) about his visit to a Key West open source facility wherein he watched a Cuban program and observed what analysts were [...]

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