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China has pledged $100 million to Cuba as financial aid (not a loan, no repayment required) to help with Cuba\u2019s ongoing economic crisis, caused in large parts by disruptions due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s worth to remember that during COVID, Cuba sent thousands of doctors to help in other countries, to mention specifically Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China has pledged $100 million to Cuba as financial aid (not a loan, no repayment required) to help with Cuba\u2019s ongoing economic crisis, caused in large parts by disruptions due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4018,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/end-the-war-on-human-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":7900,"position":0},"title":"End the War on Human Life","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"We think we know what war looks like: soldiers in uniforms, guns and tanks, dust, smoke, satellite phones and barbed wire fences. 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