Intelligence Expert Breaks Down China’s Secret Spy Bases in Cuba | WSJ

China is using bases in Cuba to monitor communications and gather intelligence throughout the southeastern U.S., a practice known as signals intelligence. Beijing and Havana have both denied planned facilities, but U.S. officials say China and Cuba already jointly run four eavesdropping stations on the island.
Satellite dishes and elephant cages are being used to listen in on military communications and tech industry secrets from the U.S. WSJ explains the technology involved, and what the U.S. is doing to defend itself.
0:00 China’s surveillance on the U.S.
0:38 Signals intelligence programs
2:19 Satellite dishes
3:33 Elephant cages
4:42 Counters
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[@rc07333]

Hilarious that at 0:18, they are using a screen shot of Native instruments Traktor software. It's a professional DJ software.. 🤣

[@StarCrusher.]

Maybe they know something we don't 👀

[@leggocrewtv2052]

‘ Make it look cool editor’

[@Shaker626]

Boutta drop that sick Chinese spy beat

[@AnglersUAE]

We love and believe US could easily taking any information needed from Beijing and Havana. Even WSJ knows everything about China and Cuba’s plan. US definitely knows everything from everywhere.

[@jsnam8139]

pretty sounds like US is mastermind of everything

[@MetaView7]

USA has over 300 military installations surrounding China. 4 more new ones have just been added in the Philippines.

[@mujur9101]

You Forgot Iphone is popular in China. 😂😅😊

[@oneshothunter9877]

@@MetaView7 750+ US military installations world wide.

[@Ducky_491]

As an American living in Skid Row I am really concern about the Chinese ships on the Pacific Coast of the U.S everyday that is responsible for 100,000+ US deaths each year.

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

Intriguing global strategy, really makes you think 🌎

[@posthocprior]

My guess: this is going to be used to triangulate signals in the Atlantic Ocean. As mentioned in the video, it could be of submarines but it also could be of anything that sends signals and is difficult to track with, say, satellite images. That is, if you have at least three listening stations, each placed equidistance from each other in the world, then when each receives the same signal, the difference in time to determine the exact location of the object. This, most likely, is the reason that the US has so many listening stations, in order to triangulate a signal to get its precise location. It can be used, say, to verify that a rocket was launched and where its headed. Or to track a submarine.

[@garethlloyd4346]

That's your guess? You pretty much just repeated what was stated in the video

[@firasajoury7813]

Well yeah with advancements in synchronization and data link techniques on boy then how privacy will be upheld

[@Av-vd3wk]

No mention of transmission encryption in this? What kind of reporting is that???

[@laimejannister5627]

typically made by interns still in college with a polisci major

[@Thephilpw99]

So maybe WSJ don't want to tell you how weak the encryption the military is using.

[@Commievn]

The U.S has been doing this for years. This is why there are 700+ U.S bases around the world... So nothing wrong with Chinese bases in Cuba. Though, the strategy and tech are really interesting so it is a good video.

[@hanslu9706]

You're absolutely right. among those 700+ bases, 300+ are around China, plus their puppet government in Taiwan. What if Cuba becomes another affiliation of China, and the Chinese government consistently selling them advanced weapons and conducting joint military exercises. I have nothing but respect to the US people, but the government is a combine of extreme selfishness and discrimination towards developing countries and communist countries.

[@bartsimpson1161]

Wait. So according to YOUR OWN MAP the US has 16 stations while China has 2 and you have the gall to complain about China?! 😂😂😂

[@Thephilpw99]

Trump: I did everything perfect and legal, while Biden should be locked up in jail. Typical American way of thinking.

[@ediekimo9110]

😂😂

[@hypnophonz]

This is called a documentary. Don't turn cry-baby over this!

[@dalemonchannel]

😂😂

[@hanslu9706]

a very good example of double-standard

[@FilthMontane]

"U.S. and China both operate intercept stations around the world." Shows only two Chinese locations near China.

[@GooopGoooop]

0:18 is Traktor, a literal DJ mixing app, what does that have to do global surveillance?

[@jervis0]

haha clocked that too

[@atamanch]

So funny to see Traktor DJ software used as a visual aid at 0:17

[@lvlunnachikku]

Lol "unlike us which only target military and deplomatic communication"

[@johnnopeyy4129]

🤣

[@Thephilpw99]

So now we don't target global terrorists any more?

[@kellykwon2232]

Well, it's true..

[@kellykwon2232]

The US isn't the one spying in on personal homes and personal conversations.

[@hypnophonz]

So? What's the point?

[@JasonMomos]

So basically, US monopoly good. Competition bad.

[@PatG-xd8qn]

This is an American media, written by Americans. Do you expect them to cheer China????

[@oemcargps]

That's called "rule based international order"

[@Miamcoline]

Super useful and interesting!

[@Issac-eg5ek]

I'll tell you what's interesting----->the civilized Americans saying bomb cuba etc,

[@RuvenssGWilches]

Is hard to tell the china not to do it whne we are doing it, since decades, and in a much higher scale

[@blolee-gc1sr]

china should do some free navigation to her ally cuba.

[@Thephilpw99]

Send some 055 destroyers cruising the Mexican bay ?

[@ShakilShahadat]

USA has more than 1000 military bases around China, Russia and what not. But China can't have one. 😂

[@chidera66]

Oh sorry it's not USA invading UKRAINE, not USA drilling Philippines oil or claiming India's land or Japan's Sea or Vietnam's islands it's not USA that claims the South China sea

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

You missed the point. The US doesn’t have bases so that they can steal from China. They are just being proactive. Whereas China’s single motive is to steal the IP of others, because it is in capable of coming up with its own intellectual property

[@oemcargps]

That's called "rule based international order"

[@Dan-nx9zn]

Why wouldn't we try to stop them it goes against the US interests

[@MeiinUK]

China has the entire world because of their mobile phones... cos they have satellites..... this is more related to the military....

[@superJXHE]

And Japan , south Korea, Australia , new Zelanda that is watching China

[@superJXHE]

@@grapesurgeon remember me how many territory USA stole from others

[@intelcom4964]

0:18 is the dj software called traktor I got it that how I know

[@eddiemandell]

Traktor DJ interface at 0:17 ???

[@DC-wg1cr]

Good for them! Checks and balances!

[@poornaharjani7962]

The volume on this video is crazy

[@vishwamkhandelwal6527]

us has an intercept station in india?? i tried searching it up couldn’t find anything by

[@govinds]

India has too many things you won't get just by Googling.

[@Thephilpw99]

WSJ: Oops !

[@NeostormXLMAX]

india is now a usa vassal

[@nathanngumi8467]

Interesting!

[@505BUZ]

Why?

[@edwardolaie]

Excellent video

[@zackchow6669]

Edward Snowden, hello?

[@JigilJigil]

Ok wumao you have posted this under 10 different accounts, we got it.

[@yemozhou9789]

@@JigilJigilGot it, FBI❤

[@kelvinking4022]

This is cool

[@jasiukowicz]

2:00 that's not how 22000 miles look :)

[@abdulwaduod11]

Wait if USA builds military bases in philippines korea japan australia its okay, but if china do its consider spying and bad ?

[@PatG-xd8qn]

When did anyone said if it's good or bad? They simply reported on China's plan in Cuba.

[@TheGiantBunnysaid]

@@PatG-xd8qn The point the original commentor is making is more in line with the way the story is framed to suggest surveillance from one group is bad and the other is supposedly justified.

[@PatG-xd8qn]

@@TheGiantBunnysaid The commentor is American. The journal is American. What did you expect? That they cheer China for what it's doing? I'm not American either but if you go watch some Chinese news translated in english they'll report good things about China and bad things about the US.

[@badbadbadcat]

​@@PatG-xd8qn good that you realize American hypocrisy

[@PatG-xd8qn]

@@badbadbadcat Everyone is hypocrite on many topics, and so are you, and so am I.

[@alereon]

Explain Pine Gap

[@windpurple3828]

good job

[@gouravmisra2317]

WATCHING FROM INDIA SIR 🎉🎉

[@dingleberry4234]

Doesn’t the US support Ukraine for doing the same thing to Russia 😂

[@ly8370]

US must be eavesdropping on China too much to discover the eavesdropping strategy. XD

[@cartomancycarmen]

Radome is a geodesic dome!

[@user-yv4gg7jb2f]

Well easy thoughts and doublecheck

[@AfroCuban4life]

Cuba Chino!!!!!! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳

[@davewhite3629]

This is a good thing for sure.

[@Youdontshushh]

Why.😂

[@Jkl62200]

​@@Youdontshushhwhy not?

[@505BUZ]

@@Jkl62200 why?

[@davewhite3629]

@@505BUZ good question we should never let the world have one overlord

[@cdes68]

Focus on the ones at the end of it.

[@alfonsodacullo3040]

Good job cuba

[@SorminaESar]

😂😂😂No

[@SportsIncorporated]

Let's ask Cuba if they want to be a state. (I would expect the Cuban military to be against it.)

[@nayayelin-nk4hc]

Just like what happened to Hawaii in 1898?

[@ropro9817]

Wouldn't all the satellite comms be encrypted though? 🤔

[@mclaren720]

You don’t think governments who has top hackers in their arsenal can decrypt them?

[@MaticSeslar]

​@@mclaren720end to end encryption isn't exactly easy to decrypt. It takes ages even with the most powerful computers. Unless you have a decryption key...

[@compassrise]

@@MaticSeslar Hence the race for quantum computers.

[@cezar684]

Encryption is a language that can be decrypted.

[@MaticSeslar]

@@cezar684 u encrypt data with prime numbers. Not languages. Even voice is data in digital communications. Hence encryption isn't language. It's math equation.

[@yunlonghu]

Edward Snowden laughed👍

[@redlogicsquare]

@RingwayManchester 03:33 - more elephant cages!

[@Skaro90]

OHHHH NOOOOO, the chinese do the same stuff the us does. How dare they😢

[@Thephilpw99]

The Kettle now is wondering about Pot's Global Eavesdropping strategy. :D

[@ytrew9717]

I would have liked it if it was sub in metric (though measuring stuff using body parts is quite hilarious)

[@oneshothunter9877]

Totally agree. Those Muricans :) At least they didn't use "as large as a semi-truck, or as long as a school bus or even as large as a football stadium"..

[@ytrew9717]

@@oneshothunter9877 seriously that would make more sense

[@auro1986]

how? just like other islands and bases owned by america and some countries of europe

[@KatyYoder-cq1kc]

HMMMMMMMMM, interesting. Perhaps a correlation to Guantánamo Bay? The Mauritanian, Communism, et al

[@theWACKIIRAQI]

This is an awesome explainer. Thank you

[@richardkidwell4134]

Cuba needs to remember their place in the world - literally. 60 miles away from us.

[@youtubecopy9524]

US is doing it already so what's the problem if China starts doing it?

[@qinpinglei1479]

Due to Monroe Doctrine, Americans do not allow any other foreign powers to wander in its backyard. usually it's means war, let's see what the Americans will do.

[@user-by9xj9hh8j]

Im glad china is listening

[@Akash-uq8wg]

Remember Prism?

[@ravitejachinta9511]

Hats off to you sir

[@cppdev2729]

0:38 US operates 15 listening posts around the world while china has only 2. why is the us/americans always acting like such a cry-baby.

[@Paul-hw8bk]

At least it is not a flying ballon which will panic all the Americans.

[@xenomorph800]

If USA can do it.. Why can't china?

[@n8paris]

Can the data being sent from satellites not be encrypted? Or is that irrelevant for some reason.

[@blucat4]

It is and that's the main thing. It's almost impossible to unencrypt. Without that, all it is is a pinpointing device. So the war is intel.

[@blucat4]

@@stevewood6192 Quantum computers are all hype, they've never done anything and never will. (Same as quantum gravity and string theory.) But even if a method to unencrypt all those saved signals was developed, by that time they will be irrelevant anyway. Unless you can unencrypt in real time, it's just something for the history books.

[@blucat4]

@@stevewood6192 Ok maybe some of the data will be relevant for years, so fair enough on point two. But those cyber security experts have been had, I repeat quantum computers don't and won't exist. Remind me of this in 2 years. AI, now, that's another issue ..

[@505BUZ]

I love it when WSJ deletes critical or true comments. This shows that we really live in a free democracy led by the USA! Yeaah love America❤🎉🇺🇲

[@vvdd4188]

😂 thank you

[@505BUZ]

@@Walrus-km6fo haha i dont make a difference between Ivan's Joe's or any people. Evil is everywhere but thank you for rembering that are people like you calling someone Ivan. Go wash your brain

[@toomuchtimetv3710]

​@@505BUZi like your way of thinking.

[@cxzact9204]

@@505BUZThe WSJ is not the US government, you chop. 😂 Freedom of speech is a law applicable to government agency only, private enterprises like WSJ and KZbin can censor vatnik disinfo all day long. Go hold a blank piece of paper in the Red Square and see what freedom of speech looks like elsewhere.

[@technolus5742]

KZbin deletes abusive comments automatically, you are baselessly acusing wsj

[@kingrobs89]

You wanna listen in on Florida? Be are guest😂😂😂😂

[@Kai-ic4mp]

IF! If this is true, to me it is only fair for China to do the same to what the US has done not only to China but at least 80% of nations on earth……. Nothing is more annoying than a hypocrite that complains……

[@thebstp]

Wouldn’t all these satellite dishes have encrypted traffic?

[@stickynorth]

I'd care more if America hasn't been doing the same thing since the dawn of time. In other words? Shocked? You should not be. Cuba will always be a strategic location for whatever foreign power has global ambitions be it Russian, Chinese, etc.

[@ApproachingPerfection]

HAHHAHA exaclty and at the same time Cubans will still be starving although i dont know if theyll die out by then. Go ahead and stay lax with tyrants

[@Thephilpw99]

And America's way to control Cuba has always been sanctioning them to death.

[@vladimiryezhov3521]

US talking about china eavesdropping, funny

[@ApproachingPerfection]

yea the US didnt send an entire ballloon to China to spy thinking they were stupid lol. all countries spy on each other but blatantly is where the problem lies does that make sense my small brained friend? its simple spy smart or dont spy at all

[@JigilJigil]

OK kremlin bot.

[@johnnopeyy4129]

​@@ApproachingPerfection It was a weather balloon bro... Jesus Christ. China has its own space station and like 30 known military satellites they can see anything in the US already.

[@probuilder05]

incapable of looking at a map?@@JigilJigil

[@Thephilpw99]

US talking about invasion, genocide and forced labor as well, basically accusing China of every crime the US had done.

[@alexlopez5800]

So, if chinas economy is "In decline". Than why do they just pop out billions of $ on these type of strategic moves?

[@johnnopeyy4129]

Because US propaganda

[@Thephilpw99]

Their economy is actually in decline. Their GDP usual increase rate is 7%, now is only 5%.

[@johnnopeyy4129]

@@Thephilpw99 "Only" 5% 🤣 now do individual European states. Lulll

[@Herodotus__]

China needs to build a Base there as well.

[@dantea6]

A matter of national security !!

[@johnnopeyy4129]

Nonsense, Cuba is a sovereign state and can choose alliances just like Ukraine.

[@forgaoqiang]

always about the USA's national security

[@Bofum69]

I feel like this information is about 30 years old.

[@Thephilpw99]

Cold war is coming back. What do you expect ?

[@GregoryGuerrier]

00:18 is DJ software by Traktor 😂 and it's the outdated 2. Versions not the 3 pro version. Hpefully nobody is spying on that for the sake of their future.

[@DavidInSydney1]

Interesting, but the speaker speaks far too rapidly and not clearly. Slow down!

[@RickThomas]

Interesting tech, but nothing new in the approach. Just the same old Spy Vs Spy games that has been going on for centuries.

[@thompson7271]

Why doesnt russia or someone have one in pakistan.

[@bigtimer4993]

Noooo😂China's surveillance network is far worse than America's.

it is the CGHQ Chinese version.

[@dohminkonoha3200]

Still ,they are not fancy bombs. It’s ok

[@davidadebanjo1277]

It’s funny how they didn’t point out any real evidence

[@xdragus]

Typical US fear propaganda piece

[@wanwan4715]

Weatern media reporting is no longer evidence-based

[@hypnophonz]

Perhaps reconnaissance photos of radomes and satellite dishes are only optical illusions.

[@Jonathon10]

I can’t believe we focus our attention on Ukraine and fighting other proxy wars, and let this go on in our back yard

[@Bamboo180]

Edward Snowden

[@JigilJigil]

Ok wumao you have posted this under 10 different accounts, we got it.

[@panama-canada]

Bravo! Long overdue. Why the 5 eyes can Hoover up sigintel from the world and China can’t? What goes around comes around.

[@mysticalwind4632]

Remember Edward Snowden ?

[@JigilJigil]

Ok wumao you have posted this under 10 different accounts, we got it.

[@Thephilpw99]

Oh you mean the true patriot who gave up everything just to let us see the truth ? Never heard of him.

[@hsiu4425]

0:15 lol a spy worries about other spies ?

[@Martin-qm2lg]

Fascinating

[@richard09able]

Maybe cuba should be made a U.S. territory too?

[@Guesswhokk]

spy balloon was never enough

[@patallen5095]

Almost every nation in the world does this. Just shows that China is trying to become an international power vs a regional one. If they don't already exist, time for the US to build new listening posts in the Philippines and Taiwan!

[@masukkannamaa]

Amerika satu satunya Kedubes yg deket dengan monas

[@gt122388]

They already took over Harvard so I'm not quite surprise

[@ldIezz]

Annex Cuba 51st state

[@mikerussell3298]

You tried that once before and failed, Never underestimate the US capacity to loose wars it starts.

[@Thephilpw99]

That's not "Annex". It's "Invasion and Occupation". Let's call it what it actually is.

[@armenkaprelian]

Double standards with the US complaining lol

[@probuilder05]

horrifying: china has one (1) base in cuba doing "commercial eavesdropping" necessary for "national security": the USA has three more advanced ones in india, burma, and japan "targeting military and diplomatic communications" facts here are that china has 1 base now outside of its general geographic region, while the USA has 12.

[@CausticLemons7]

Who said horrifying? Sounds like you are the one fearmongering...

[@probuilder05]

@@CausticLemons7 not like i can see a situation being hypocritically exaggerated and point out how loopy it is

[@CausticLemons7]

@@probuilder05 Except you're the one exaggerating it. Reporting on what's happening and why isn't hyperbole.

[@probuilder05]

@@CausticLemons7 what do you think im referring to? the news the base is being built isn't hyperbolic. the treatment of it is, with other media channels pretending like it's a massive threat & escalation when the USA has more bases

[@CausticLemons7]

@@probuilder05 So you're complaining here about something happening on other channels? Again, you're the one here creating drama.

[@MrFredericandre]

Encryption makes eavesdropping useless.

[@Thephilpw99]

But not American military encryption...

[@sivarammm]

end of us dominance....time for us to pay off

[@pathomthavaradhara]

This is very big gamble for the CCP thus far, if this is “ as worst as the Cuban Missiles crisis “ in 10/16/1962. The CCP are very aggressive and no respect for our country, it is at our doorstep.

[@darksars3622]

Ah s*** here we go agsin

[@2013TombRaider]

As always trying to replicate everything usa does instead of coming out with their own ideas.

[@alisoninchausti1080]

Glass roof much?

[@Sheikh_786]

Support Russia and Putin Sir against Nato ✊

[@hyuxion]

One word, Edward Snowden

[@JigilJigil]

10,000,000+ Uyghurs in camps.

[@hyuxion]

​@@JigilJigil 10 million dead American Indian vs 26 millions Xinjiang population.

[@tomasp1988]

0:41 shows how the global surveillance ecosystem is completely imbalanced favoring the US, so China's effort, if it in fact exists, seems legit and sustained

[@jaketang892]

@@garyoak2974don’t think your allies are happy about anything you do 😂

[@Youdontshushh]

@@jaketang892 then why they trust them? Who trusts an opressive regime like ehem

[@mohamedhussein4124]

@@garyoak2974Cubaand Latin American 🇺🇸 aren’t your allies mate

[@tofuyam7361]

@@garyoak2974 your allies don't want their economy crater or party being overthrown

[@Thephilpw99]

So all 400+ military bases have no signal tracking facility ? That's a bit hard to believe.

[@Luther_Luffeigh]

Fear mongering and far stretching stories for clicks

[@505BUZ]

Yeah corona is over and they have no arguments except war and forcing LGBTQ

[@JasonMomos]

@@natural5584 "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us".

[@backpackpepelon3867]

Its good for their sheep's, maybe can let them get another vaccine shots too, who knows.

[@Thephilpw99]

Yup, one commercial radio monitoring station makes WSJ yelling "Wolf ! Wolf !"