Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing cannot accept any country acting as the “world’s judge” after the United States captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
The world’s second-largest economy has provided Venezuela with an economic lifeline since the U.S. and its allies ramped up sanctions in 2017, purchasing roughly $1.6 billion worth of goods in 2024, the most recent full-year data available.
Almost half of China’s purchases were crude oil, customs data shows, while its state-owned oil giants had invested around $4.6 billion in Venezuela by 2018, according to data from the American Enterprise Institute think tank, which tracks Chinese overseas corporate investment.
There was even a Chinese delegation IN Venezuela at the time of the bombing wth lol 😂 😅
Well sure. They were buying most of Venezuela’s oil themselves.
What’s wrong with buying a product that’s for sale?
Nothing per se, but it shows that it’s not US heavy handedness or national sovereignty they’re worried about, but rather their own business interests. And they should be. China needs oil, and the US is squeezing their pipelines.
They also buy a lot from Iran, which also looks as if it’s being destabilised.
No one said it was wrong. It makes sense they have an embassy if they buy stuff.
and they meet Maduro a few hourse before he was kidnapped.