This is coming from the Financial Times, so this is what the serious, sane capitalists actually believe. Xi, please, you have to see what's happening, right? 
China had 2 decades to help Venezuela develop their productive capacity in order to refine their oil and they didn’t do shit.
DNC ass communist hegemon, with communist friends like these who needs capitalists
I think that might be due to geography. Any major Chinese redevelopment efforts for Venezuela would have to cross the US controlled Panama Canal, which the US would obviously crack down on. Sailing around Cape Horn is expensive and also dangerous.
While Venezuela is in the Belt and Road Initiative, anything large scale can't be air lifted would be costly.
It's only until relatively recently that China has taken an interest in helping the global south, namely 10 years. And even then, China has mostly focused on Eurasia and Africa. Latin America has been too far for China.
Rusia on the other hand has been more helpful historically.
in 10 years china isn't going to fucking need oil imports lmao they'll be like at least 60-70% solar/wind/hydro powered, and Xinjiang still has a shitload of oil
in 10 years they will probably have thorium and even fusion reactors covering that last 30% and be starting construction on an orbital solar array
The government pays Elon Musk to sabotage the array and all it does is just end up dropping orbital garbage across the Lower 48
add this to the lathe: somehow he knocks out half his entire constellation of satellites as well by insisting on personally calculating (asking grok) the orbital rendezvous maneuver because hes such a junus
Don't they already have energy positive thorium reactors? I thought there was a shipping vessel that runs on thorium as proof of concept
I think they have working prototype reactors but that’s about it for now. They have plans to build some pilot plants and hopefully if things go well they’ll expand from there.
In ten years China will be fighting a protracted war against Nato and the west because the latter are not going to just sit there
Inshallah, in 10 years the US won't exist.
I think he sees what's happened and international restrictions on rare earths are the strongest option they had to play.
From what I've seen, and I might be wrong, it seems like Chine backed down this week and gave America everything it wanted for nothing but a small decrease in tariffs. Rare Earth discussion was just delayed one year into the future. It looks like China leadership's plan is to double down on manufacturing and exports, even as the tariffs force them to export to Europe and neighboring Asian nations instead of the USA.
No. To my knowledge the controls for rare earths were only lifted for non-military use. This was reported in the media as "rare earths restrictions lifted" but is misleading.
Thank you, serves me right for relying on mainstream lib-news for any issue related to China.
I also made this mistake before another hexbear corrected
it's obviously counterbalance to russia oil production, especially re:india. can i write for ft now? fucking idiots.
(like modi literally said allow us import from iran or venezuela and we'll think about cutting off russia, fucking lo and behold)
You…you think the US is invading Venezuela because of the Indians?
no, they are invading because of oil, but oil has a purpose, usa is printing oil, it's not 2005 anymore, the world is in oil glut, but it still would notice russia's output missing in america's gas prices, but if it where to be compensated by naked overtake of venezuela - 
America deserves the worst case climate change scenario if this succeeds. Their idiot population will be too busy self-destructing to take advantage of anything.
We’ll probably be gone before them but it’ll be satisfying knowing that they’ll struggle worse than us because they’re too soft, selfish, and stupid to mitigate the problems they caused.
The US has a blessed position geographically but they'll still fuck it all up and be worse off than the rest of the world.
Evil people run the world 
Direct link to the Financial Times article (I didn't hit a paywall for a change, but here's an archive link for good measure)
edit: also, TIL what a "Pauline conversion" is
Oil or lithium?
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