“Venezuela has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” stated the Chinese representative.
The Chinese government categorically condemned the arbitrary seizure of tankers carrying Venezuelan oil by the United States, considering this action a serious violation of international law and the basic principles governing relations between states.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian condemned the seizure of vessels without authorization from the UN Security Council as an illegitimate unilateral action lacking any international legal basis.
“The arbitrary seizure by the United States of vessels from other countries seriously violates international law,” the diplomat stated, while reiterating Beijing’s consistent position against unilateral coercive measures imposed outside of multilateral mechanisms.
As Lin Jian stated, China “opposes any action that violates the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, infringes upon the sovereignty and security of other countries, and opposes all unilateral intimidation.”
Lin Jian emphasized that Venezuela has the full right to sovereignly develop energy and trade cooperation with other countries and expressed his conviction that the international community understands and supports Caracas in defending its legitimate rights and interests.
China’s reaction comes after US President Donald Trump referred to the Venezuelan government as a “foreign terrorist organization” and announced a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers traveling to or from Venezuela. Following these statements, US military forces seized at least three tankers carrying Venezuelan crude oil.
Meanwhile, Trump has openly threatened Venezuela, demanding the return of assets allegedly “stolen” from the United States and announcing military action under the pretext of combating drug trafficking—a narrative that, without evidence, Washington has used to increase its armed presence in the Caribbean.
Since September 2025, the United States has sunk 24 small boats in Caribbean waters with missile strikes, claiming that the passengers were transporting drugs. Over 100 sailors have been unilaterally executed in this manner by US forces. Caracas and other regional actors have repudiated these actions as violations of sovereignty and threats to regional security.
On November 3, Trump asserted that “Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered,” although, at the same time, he claimed that Washington was not planning a war against Venezuela. The Venezuelan government described these statements as a direct provocation intended to destabilize the region, as well as a violation of international agreements on the demilitarized and non-nuclear nature of the Caribbean.
In this context, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned of the sustained increase in tension surrounding Venezuela, an ally of Moscow, and cautioned that unilateral US decisions pose a direct threat to international navigation and regional stability.
US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale
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I’m sorry. Is intellectual property theft a tankie thing now? Like, roll the tanks and take those patents!!
Do you think Mao stole intellectual property in order to end the biannual cycle of famines China had for a century before they finally figured out how to address it?
Is stealing intellectual property, which itself is a total monopolist regime of capitalist exploitation with zero public benefit, does that nullify what China did? Consider that China had to steal that IP from some country, mostly the US, and the US has had a falling economy for 50 years. What’s the US doing with all that original IP it has? And since the US has the IP first, before China has it, and since China can only steal some at a time, you’d think the US would be way ahead of China, wouldn’t you? Why is that not the case?
Xi Xinping is personally keeping everyone in China down because he personally doesn’t think they deserve nice things? Can you source that for me? Seems strange considering the average purchasing power of Chinese citizens keeps going up and the poverty alleviation campaigns continue to rack up the successes.
And finally, being court martialled for refusing orders is something every country does, even when the orders are illegal. In fact, it is the process of the court marshall that helps to identify the illegal orders, in accordance with the military court system. The US also does this, as evidenced by the fact that the US is currently threatening to re-enlist a sitting elected official specifically to court marshall them for even speaking out loud about the military’s responsibility to refuse illegal orders. Unfortunately, the US has not procesuted it’s own soldiers and officers for systematic torture, extrajudicial murder, weaponizing sexual violence, and stealing millions. Nor has it ever prosecuted anyone for lying about the reasons for war and then going to war and killing millions. Nor has it ever prosecuted anyone for planning and executing genocides, like Kissinger did.
So yeah, good leak. Nice insight into that event. Appreciate it. But what happened in China pales in comparison to what the US does literally every single year and has been doing for the past 70 years. From napalming entire countries of millions of people for months to dropping over 2 millions tons of bombs on countries it wasn’t even at war with to building international torture sites to avoid its own laws to training, arming, coordinating, and deploying literal death squads across an entire continent.
If I"m a tankie, what does that make you? A dronie? You want to claim China has no place defending itself from the US, so clearly it should just isolate itself, do nothing in response to constant US provocation, and eventually watch as the drones obliterate the entire country?