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China said it supported Cuba and urged the United States to “stop brandishing the judicial stick” against the country, aft Washington indicted the Caribbean island’s erstwhile person Raul Castro connected execution charges.
The U.S. charges against the 94-year-old erstwhile President — announced Wednesday (May 20, 2026) — fuelled speculation that President Donald Trump volition effort to topple the communist state.
“The U.S. broadside should halt brandishing the sanctions instrumentality and the judicial instrumentality against Cuba and halt threatening unit astatine each turn,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a property briefing Thursday (May 21, 2026), erstwhile asked astir the U.S. charges.
“China firmly supports Cuba successful safeguarding its nationalist sovereignty and nationalist dignity and opposes outer interference,” Mr. Guo said.
Castro is the younger member of Fidel Castro, the precocious influential U.S. nemesis who led Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution.
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The charges against him stem from the downing of 2 civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots successful 1996, which resulted successful 4 deaths.
Raul Castro was besides charged with conspiracy to termination Americans and demolition of aircraft.
Mr. Trump hailed the indictment connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) arsenic a “very large moment” but played down prospects of moving connected Cuba, whose system has been successful a deepening situation for months driven by a U.S. lipid blockade.
