Spokesman Guo Jiakun stated that China has always opposed illegal unilateral sanctions that lack any basis in international law.

He also reiterated his call for the US to immediately end the blockade against Cuba and any form of coercion or pressure, “and to cease violating the Cuban people’s rights to survival and development.”

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel described the threat of US military aggression against Cuba as an international crime, which, if it come true, he asserted, will cause a bloodbath with incalculable consequences. On his social media profile, the Cuban leader indicated that such aggression would have a destructive impact on regional peace and stability.

Cuba poses no threat, nor does it have any aggressive plans or intentions against any country. It has none against the United States, nor has it ever had any, a fact well known to the US government, especially its defense and national security agencies, the head of State wrote.

He also remembered that this Caribbean nation is already suffering multidimensional aggression from that northern power.

In his message, Diaz-Canel reaffirmed Cuba’s absolute and legitimate right to defend itself against a military offensive, which—he pointed out—cannot be logically or honestly used as an excuse to impose a war against the noble Cuban people.

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