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.
Sanction them then?
“cannot accept” = asking them nicely to stop. It’s a nothing burger
Diplomats do not speak the same language as you and I sitting around sipping beer and bullshitting. In diplomatic terms that means, “We’re pissed off, though we’re not taking immediate action. Keep going, FAFO.”
No, this amounts to “Please stop you’re dismantling our client state, we can’t actually stop you though.”
China will do something better, replace the dollar as the reserve currency. That will result in the fall of America crushed by its own debt, same reason Britain fell.
The US dollar is used for 53% of the world’s reserve currency. China’s Renminbi is 2%. It’s a fun thought, but no. If anything, the Euro at 18.4% has a better shot.
Britain ruled more than half of the globe at its peak. No one thought it would ever fall. But here we are.
No one would have imagined Chinese cars dominating the world 10 years ago, but here we are.
Don’t look at where they are, but where they’re going.
I never said USD won’t ever fall. Holy shit, you guys can’t read. Your love for China absolutely blinds you.
Your gate for China absolutely blinds you. You have no idea how much CIA has propagandised you.
The internet was invented by the American military. You don’t think they would use it to influence you?
I am fully aware of how horrible the US government is. If you weren’t so blinded by your own misguided passion, you’d have seen that.
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.
I don’t care about being rich, I just want the terrorist empire to fall
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.