Yes, the question is how reliable those claims are.

Cuba doesn't have a lot of foreign currency, but it does have a lot of cheap labor, often shockingly skilled labor. Boiling it down to a cost in dollars may not be easy, let alone saying "China won't spend that".

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fakedang a day ago | parent [-]

China is most definitely going to be spending that in a tit-for-tat arrangement, as hinted at by the spy stations.

	▲	vintermann a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, China is already spending so much in much less developed/educated places, seemingly just for "goodwill" or at least to be in a good place once the US hegemony falls. The only reason they wouldn't do it in Cuba would be to avoid needlessly provoking the US, but I think they have a good excuse now (clearly US is the provocateur, they're only restoring some semblance of balance in the longer term).