Wall Street Journal: China has obtained Cuba's agreement to build a spy station there. Just a hundred kilometers from the U.S.

border, such a facility would be. China and Cuba have reached an agreement in principle to pay "billions of dollars" to Havana in order to have the right to install a listening station on the island. Beijing is signaling to its American rival that it "believes it can play in the same court," says Anurag Mishra, an expert in international relations.