1 month ago - Satellite image shows seized Venezuelan oil tanker near the Galveston, Texas shoreline. China and Russia have expressed support for Venezuela.

1 month ago - It therefore plays into China's hands if the US is forced to devote more attention to the situation in Venezuela or Cuba. Presumably, it is also advantageous for Russia to increase its influence over allies in Latin America, challenging US supremacy in the region.

1 week ago - Nicolas Maduro was a key ally of the so-called CRINK countries (China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea) in Latin America. But President Trump’s actions in Venezuela seemingly support an attempt to alter the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere.

May 22, 2025 - Source: “Rusia, China e Irán lanzan sus ‘juegos de guerra’ para desafiar a Estados Unidos en Venezuela (Russia, China and Iran launch their ‘war games’ to challenge the United States in Venezuela),” Clarín (left leaning daily in Argentina), 10 August 2022.

6 days ago - On the other side were Venezuelan forces outfitted with Chinese and Russian equipment specifically designed and intended to prevent airplanes from flying over one’s nation. Those systems obviously failed. More specifically, the Chinese radar system that failed is the JY-27A system that the slaving, genocidal communist regime in China pitched to its clients in Caracas as being able to detect stealthy aircraft.

2 weeks ago - After ousting Maduro, the U.S. has said it will now “run” Venezuela policy. Trump also has renewed his threat to take over Greenland — a self-governing territory of Denmark and part of the NATO military alliance — and threatened to take military action against Colombia for facilitating the global sale of cocaine. The Kremlin will be “thrilled” with the idea that large countries — such as Russia, the United States and China — get spheres of influence because it proves “might makes right,” Hill said.

1 month ago - Russia and China on Tuesday criticized the United States for its military and economic pressure on Venezuela, telling the UN Security Council it was "cowboy behavior" and "intimidation."

2 weeks ago - 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.

1 week ago - The United States has seized a tanker linked to Russia off the coast of Europe and a second vessel in the Caribbean in an escalation of the enforcement of the Venezuela oil blockade.

1 month ago - The UN Security Council is to meet Tuesday to discuss the mounting crisis between Venezuela and the United States after a request from Caracas, backed by China and Russia.

1 month ago - "The longer it goes on and it may create negotiating space in U.S.-China diplomacy, because Venezuelan oil is discounted to China, and it's the type of heavy crude that China can refine," he said. "Without VZ oil, China will have to go to the market to Russia and the Middle East, which will be more costly to them," he added.

5 days ago - The UN Security Council is to meet Tuesday to discuss the mounting crisis between Venezuela and the United States after a request from Caracas, backed by China and Russia.

2 weeks ago - It would be the height of irony, then, if Trump’s military operation in Venezuela winds up complicating his own grand strategy over the long term. Leland Lazarus is founder and CEO of Lazarus Consulting, a geopolitical risk firm focusing on U.S.-China and China-Latin America relations. The U.S. ousting Maduro potentially kills multiple birds with one stone: It could increase oil supply in the U.S. and reduce oil prices, curb drug trafficking, dislodge China, Russia, and Iran from their strategic beachhead, and weaken other regional adversaries like Cuba and Nicaragua.

2 weeks ago - For more than two decades, Venezuela sought to cultivate a network of anti-American allies – from Russia and China to Cuba and Iran – in the hope of helping to shape a new axis capable of standing up to Washington.

November 4, 2025 - China, Iran, and Russia sent aid, capital, and arms through illicit trade networks to enable the Houthis’ attacks on western merchants and warships transiting the Bab al-Mandeb strait. They will do the same to aid Venezuela in a bid to challenge U.S. regional hegemony.

December 1, 2025 - If the Venezuelan can shoot down a stealth fighter or sink a naval vassal, which isn't that hard since Chinese radar can detect the 5th gen fighter and the US Navy have proven extremely vulnerable while dealing with the Houthi, it's already a huge loss to the US More replies ... Well it’s mainly because neither Russia nor China are Hegemonic Powers.