By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. officials "need to be alert" to China's growing influence in Latin
America, especially the role its intelligence services are playing, a
senior Pentagon policy-maker told a House panel yesterday.
The testimony from Roger Pardo-Mauer, deputy assistant secretary of
defense for Western Hemisphere affairs, comes as China is attempting to
exercise more influence in the United States' back yard. Beijing has
sought closer ties with Fidel Castro's Cuba, controls shipping ports in
Central America and may be gathering intelligence in the region as it
has done in the United States for years, officials have said.
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