Donald Trump destroyed a relationship that China had been fostering for decades in a matter of hours. Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, had been hailing his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as “an older brother” with a “powerful message as a leader to the world” during a meeting with senior Beijing diplomats only hours before he was taken prisoner in a nocturnal raid.
One of its closest South American allies, Venezuela, is an oil-rich country in which China has made significant investments. The following picture of Maduro was shot on a US warship while he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and wearing gray sweatpants. However, the state media used the film from that meeting to illustrate this point, showing happy men in suits reviewing some of the 600 current agreements between the two nations.
China condemned Washington’s shocking action against a sovereign state along with several other nations. It maintained that “the sovereignty and security of all countries should be fully protected under international law” and charged the US with acting as a “world judge.”
As the great geopolitical struggle between the US and China takes a new, completely unexpected turn, Beijing will be carefully calculating not only to secure its foothold in South America but also to manage an already complex relationship with Trump and calculate its future steps.
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