Cuba Will Pursue China Ties ‘to Maximum Extent’ But Rules Out Military Base

A senior Cuban diplomat has expressed his nation’s commitment to further boosting ties with China but ruled out the possibility of hosting any foreign military bases, even as an intensifying geopolitical feud between China and the United States comes to the Caribbean. On the heels of a Newsweek investigation that revealed previously unseen details regarding Chinese dealings with the tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernà¡ndez de Cossà­o told Newsweek that “we don’t know of any hostile act against the U.S. by China in the region.” “We know it is mentioned by a lot by…