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How China Helps the Cuban Regime Stay Afloat and Shut Down Protests
By Leland Lazarus and Evan Ellis
Chinese companies have played a key part in building Cuba’s telecommunications infrastructure, a system the regime uses to control its people, just as the CCP does within its own borders.