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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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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yet this is exactly the kind of action they fully supproted when Russia attempted the exactly same thing in 2022. And then several times since. Plus a few other atrocities.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Since Taiwan is "already part" of China, that would just be internal affairs too.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago

MAGAs keep saying that this isn't about the oil because the oils fields are inoperative, and it will be at least a decade, and billions of dollars before they are getting any oil out of the ground.

Meanwhile, we've been hijacking giants tankers full of oil, and China, and other countries, have been buying billions of dollars worth every year.

It seems like there is plenty of oil coming out of Venezuela, and always has been. This is all about oil, and that's all there is to it. They can deny it, but they are proven virtuoso liars, and we don't have to believe them.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

It also cannot accept others acting as judges when it finally invades Taiwan.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

And this differs from China with Taiwan in.... Hi e exactly? Beyond the point that China hasn't attacked Taiwan YET, there isn't that much difference.

The US ad China are both always behaving like a bag of dicks and both should fuck right off

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 267 points 1 week ago (50 children)

And china are right in this case. They're just also assholes

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