{"id":75864,"date":"2026-01-06T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/05\/venezuela-trump-attack-china-interests-analysis"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:51:06","slug":"trumps-attack-leaves-china-worried-about-its-interests-in-venezuela-amy-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75864","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s attack leaves China worried about its interests in Venezuela | Amy Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maduro had just affirmed \u2018strong bonds of brotherhood\u2019 with Beijing when US made its shocking intervention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/jan\/05\/venezuela-live-updates-trump-us-interim-president-collaborate\">Venezuela crisis \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hours before his life and the fate of his country was changed dramatically, Venezuela\u2019s leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/video\/maduro-seen-hosting-chinese-envoy-hours-before-us-capture-13490274\">exchanging smiles and handshakes<\/a> with a Chinese delegation in the presidential palace in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, shortly before he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/04\/us-running-venezuela-now-seems-less-likely-but-second-intervention-possible\">seized by US forces<\/a>, Maduro wrote on Telegram of his meeting with China\u2019s special envoy for Latin American affairs, Qiu Xiaoqi: \u201cA fraternal meeting that reaffirms the strong bonds of brotherhood and friendship between China and Venezuela. Through thick and thin!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/05\/venezuela-trump-attack-china-interests-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maduro had just affirmed \u2018strong bonds of brotherhood\u2019 with Beijing when US made its shocking interventionVenezuela crisis \u2013 latest updatesHours before his life and the fate of his country was changed dramatically, Venezuela\u2019s leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,50,415,3207,45,47,748,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-nicolas-maduro","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-venezuela","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75876,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864\/revisions\/75876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}