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China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro (www.reuters.com)
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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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[–] -4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Idk about above board, the nation it was supposed to be returned to doesn't exist anymore.

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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor_state

    Example:

    USSR --> Succeeded by Russian Federation and they inherited the UN seat and the Non Proliferation Treaty

    ROC --> UN members voted to recognize PRC as the representative of "China"

    Returning Hong Kong to China wasn't the issue, the issue is that PRC does not have democracy. If they had democracy, I doubt anyone would care that Hong Kong became part of China.

    I don't think Hong Kongers want to secede, per se, they just want freedom.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's a not uncommon pattern to have "successor states" that inherit the treaties and obligations of the previous ones. For example how Russia "inherited" the Soviet Union's position on the UN Security Council, or how Canada is bound by treaties with the First Nations that were signed by Britain (who we were a colony of at the time).

    Would have been a Big Funny if Britain had handed Hong Kong off to Taiwan instead, though.

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