The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Cuba\u2019s state-owned oil and gas company, escalating pressure on Havana\u2019s communist government and targeting a sector central to the island\u2019s worsening energy crisis.<\/p>\n
The move came hours after senior Chinese and Cuban officials held a video conference to discuss bilateral cooperation and party-to-party ties.<\/p>\n
According to statements released by Chinese and Cuban officials, the talks involved Liu Haixing<\/a>, head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Central Committee, and Emilio Lozada Garcia, head of the International Relations Department of Cuba\u2019s Communist Party.The two sides exchanged views on implementing agreements reached by the countries\u2019 leaders, expanding inter-party exchanges and advancing what they described as a China-Cuba community<\/a> with a shared future.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> announced sanctions on Union Cuba-Petroleo, known as CUPET, under Executive Order 14404, a measure signed by US President Donald Trump<\/a> in May authorising broad restrictions on Cuban government entities and officials.<\/p>\n Trump vows to \u2018take\u2019 Cuba as island reels from total power cut linked to oil embargo<\/p>\n The designation blocks CUPET\u2019s property and interests under US jurisdiction and raises the risk of sanctions for foreign companies and financial institutions that engage in certain transactions involving the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Cuba\u2019s state-owned oil and gas company, escalating pressure on Havana\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[121],"tags":[250,2877,6607,58109,58108,12,3365,56225,33014,186,18,329,1434,107,739],"class_list":["post-114136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-marco-rubio","tag-china","tag-chinese-communist-party","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-communist-party","tag-cupet","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-order","tag-guantanamo-bay","tag-havana","tag-marco-rubio","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-us","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116752295531348848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}