MBABANE:China is facing risks in Venezuela as United States (US) President Donald Trump seize control of Venezuelan oil but political analysts told Aljazeera that, the US focus on Venezuela and the Southern American automatically creates a great opportunity for China to invade and seize control of it’s United States backed Taiwan Province.
“Hours before United States special forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last Saturday, Maduro met with China’s special envoy to the Latin American country to reaffirm their nations’ “strategic relationship”. Now the decades-long relationship is in question, as is the future of billions of dollars of Chinese investment in the country. At the same time, the US has handed China a new opportunity to assert its dominance in its own back yard, including on its claim to self-governing Taiwan”, analysts say as quoted by Aljazeera this week.
China’s President Xi Jinping and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro take part in a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China, on September 13, 2023 (Pic: Miraflores Palace).