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.

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    3 days ago

    lol, if you’re not chinese, wealthy, and in the party you’re not in the club.

    If you’re not ultra wealthy you’re also not in the club today, so i’m sure you won’t see much of a change between one regime and another, unless you’re an ‘undesirable’ that comes to find yourself in the sphere of influence of china anyway.

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        2 days ago

        Hey we can knock off all the big empires and let the cartels take over. Get beheadings, stonings and other crude execution methods back in the civilized world. Bring us all down to the same level.

        We can have women accused of whatever bullshit and get the rape gangs going. I hear it’s all the rage in Pakistan.

        Maybe we can get Maduro in there so that he can send his goons in to rape anyone who speaks out against his rule. They don’t care if you are a man, woman, adult or child- but this is a thing that happens to those who are against him. Have you asked any Venezuelans about that before?

        I don’t think what the US does is right. I just envision the world you are pushing for. It’s horrific. Even more so than the billions suffering every day today.

        Would be nice if enough normal, kind people banded together and started a world government with some teeth… but human nature is to take advantage for oneself. It’ll never happen. Once we’re extinct maybe the next intelligent life will succeed where we failed. It’s a kill or be killed world as long as humanity is in charge.