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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[–] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

China is hypocritical as FUCK

They take Tibet, they take Hong Kong despite practically the entire island coming out to say no thanks, they threaten Taiwan every second day, and the only reason they haven’t taken Taiwan is because they wouldn’t have been able to hold it against the west

Now they see how weak Europe is and the nutter in command of the US, and their plans have accelerated, this is simply an opportunity to further push propaganda on something they were always going to do

On top of that I actually wouldn’t mind if we had a judge that aligns closer to American/Western values

China is literally right next to the totalitarian dystopian hellscape that is North Korea

Executions for watching south korean tv, 3 generations of jail as punishment for committing crimes

i would have no problems if even china which is not great even by itself could bring some sense to north korea

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    the only reason they haven’t taken Taiwan is because they wouldn’t have been able to hold it against the west

    Eeeeh I'm not so sure about that anymore.

    I suspect losing trading partners is the biggest deterrent. As soon as controlling the supply of Taiwanese microchips becomes more financially viable than making billions of tons of cheap goods every year, China will take Taiwan. And the US naval fleet will either be cruise missiled to the bottom of the ocean or we'll just quietly walk back our threats to defend it.

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  • [+] -17 points 9 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Common mrdown L. Learn how to spell, buddy.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ok language police. All i said is right . That guy is a big hypocrite and a genovide supporter. What's your problem with what I said?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Even if so (I don't know this user or their beliefs), what does that have to do with the current discussion? All I can see is you going full aggro against them completely unprompted. You addressed nothing about what they said, just immediately leaped to insults and accusations. The fact you didn't bother checking your spelling just makes you look like you saw this user and just went off on them without a second thought out of anger. This is something I have seen you do time and time again.

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