2 weeks ago - The not-so-hidden message was for Beijing: get out of our backyard. Beijing is unlikely to listen. But it will wait to see what happens next. On Wednesday Beijing strongly condemned a US report that suggested Washington will order the acting Venezuelan president to sever economic ties with China and Russia.

2 weeks ago - China is owed at least $10 billion from Venezuela, according to various estimates, a debt that former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had paid down by shipping oil to China. It is possible that the interim Venezuelan government complying with Washington’s demands could question the legality of those loans-for-oil deals and cease payments. ... Control of the House is at the center of midterms. These charts help explain the fight

2 weeks ago - Explore China's reaction to U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the implications for Latin America and international relations.

4 days ago - Wanting to learn further about beneficiaries, the government asked ZTE help to develop QR codes for the "homeland cards". ZTE developed the codes at a cost of less than $3 per account, and the government printed the cards, linking them to the Soltein database. In 2008, China also launched a communication satellite Venesat-1 for Venezuela, which has since become inactive.

1 week ago - She said the United States would need to offer a large and comprehensive aid program like the Marshall Plan, which helped to rebuild Europe after World War II. Several big Latin American countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia, have denounced Mr. Trump’s actions in Venezuela, something that Mr. Cui, the Chinese professor, said could strengthen China’s ties with these countries. Besides, Mr. Cui added, it is impossible for China and Latin America to walk away from each other.

2 weeks ago - [1/3]Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers his speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing, China, October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab · "There isn't much in the way of material support that China can offer Venezuela at this time, but rhetorically, Beijing will be very important when it leads the effort at the UN and with other developing countries to rally opinion against the U.S.," said Eric Olander, co-founder of the China-Global South Project.

2 weeks ago - China — one of the world's biggest buyers of Venezuelan oil — reacted to President Trump's ouster of the Latin American country's leader over the weekend with a series of condemnations but no signals of retaliation so far, as the world continues to assess the shocking weekend move to arrest President Nicolás Maduro. China is "deeply shocked," a Foreign Ministry spokesperson offered in a statement, accusing the US of "hegemonic acts."

6 days ago - On November 24, a post claimed that “China announced it will provide military help to Venezuela if it faces foreign invasion.” Other X users flagged the claim as false, yet the post was reshared more than a thousand times.

December 18, 2025 - China supports Venezuela's request for an urgent meeting of the council, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday, when asked at a regular news briefing what role China, as a "responsible" major power, would play.

China supports the Security Council in holding an emergency meeting regarding the US military strikes on Venezuela. We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for reading out the briefing of Secretary-General António Guterres.

Nicolas Maduro took power after Chavez’s death in 2013, turning increasingly authoritarian as Venezuela’s economy continued to decline.[4] As the United States expanded its sanctions on Venezuela (which had begun in 2006), China became a prime source of financing and investment.[5] Venezuela supported China in many international forums (including positions on Taiwan and Hong Kong) while China emphasized respect for Venezuelan sovereignty and opposition to sanctions.[6] During Maduro’s state visit in 2023, China upgraded its relationship with Venezuela to an All-Weather Strategic Partnership, making Venezuela one of only seven countries to hold China’s highest tier of bilateral partnership.[*][7]

2 weeks ago - China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press briefing Monday that China maintains "positive communication and cooperation" with the Venezuelan government and that its willingness to deepen cooperation, including on oil exports, would not change regardless of how the situation evolves. He added that Chinese interests in Venezuela would be protected under the law. The U.S. attack on Venezuela helps China bolster its position as a "force for stability" in the world, said Zichen Wang, a research fellow at the Beijing-based think tank Center for China and Globalization.

2 weeks ago - Venezuela does not occupy a central place in China’s global strategic priorities, which are focused on the Asia-Pacific region (with particular emphasis on Taiwan), trade ties with Europe, and structural competition with the United States — a framework that helps explain why the Chinese government did not immediately respond to Maduro’s capture. Beijing doesn’t have much room to maneuver. In 2023, during Maduro’s state visit to China, the China-Venezuelan relationship was elevated to the level of an “all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership,” but this flowery political recognition doesn’t imply any security commitments. Moreover, experts point out that, for China, Venezuela is a useful partner on a rhetorical and symbolic level, rather than an ally to whom it would be willing to offer military support in a scenario of direct confrontation with the United States.

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2 weeks ago - China's foreign ministry said the move was a 'clear violation of international law, basic norms in international relations, and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter'. Officials in Beijing also called on Washington to 'cease efforts to subvert the Venezuelan government and resolve issues through dialogue and negotiation'.

2 weeks ago - “China is deeply shocked and strongly condemns the use of force by the US against a sovereign country and the use of force against the president of a country,” it said. It added: “We urge the US to abide by international law and the purposes and principles of the UN charter and stop violating the sovereignty and security of other countries.” · Trump says US will be ‘very strongly involved’ in Venezuela’s oil industry after military attack

2 weeks ago - Ryan Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Trump administration is serious about the Western Hemisphere strategy outlined in the recent National Security Strategy document, with a Trump Corollary over the hemisphere. The fact that President Trump launched this operation hours after Nicolás Maduro met with China’s special envoy sends a clear and unequivocal message to China and its role in the Americas.

2 weeks ago - Trump promised in his speech on Saturday that American energy companies stand ready to invest “billions and billions of dollars” to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, but experts warn it could take years, if not decades, for them to see returns. One more immediate effect, however, is that the U.S. would seem to be on the verge of taking control of a major energy supplier to China.

2 weeks ago - Not much to worry China here: Venezuela’s defences were in such a shambles that Maduro had recently asked Xi for new radar systems, requested help from his other ally, Vladimir Putin, to repair the engines for Russian Sukhoi-SU20 MK2 warplanes ...