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.

  • BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world
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    Is bombing other countries, killing civilians and installing puppet leaders not a violation of human rights?

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          Kay, I’m not chinese or american, so, both the us and china do horrendous things. It’s not a shittiness competition

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              I think you’re missing a lot of US History in your knowledge base. The US have committed atrocities for centuries. Are you forgetting the genocide of native americans? Slavery? All the meddling in Latin America and southeast Asia? This is just some of the bigger examples.

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                Are you responding to the wrong reply? Bojack is saying bringing up China’s human rights violations in comparison to America bombing people and overthrowing governments all over the world is a false equivalency, and Lemmy is downvoting them because the are correct.

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      Alright. The US acted like crap. Therefore nobody is allowed to criticise China.

      Because of the US, we are not allowed to speak about the Uyghur KZs in China.

      Because of the US, we are not allowed to criticise China for unlawfully occupying Tibet.

      Because of the US, we are not allowed to criticise China for not respecting Taiwans sovereignty.

      Do you understand how hollow you sound?