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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.

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      China is an authoritarian dictatorship that tramples human rights and treats its citizens like resources and speed-bumps and treats “free speech” as the joke it actually is.

      if you switched “China” to “The USA” in this sentence, I would have to find details to see if the scale is different but both do exactly the same

        • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I agree… but my point here is that it does not matter it was China who said “x”, in this instance “x” is right and people are dismissing it because “cHiNA” but the reality is that every country, powerful enough, acts pretty much the same so I am attempting to split the source from the message

    • Darkness343@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      So what if they do a little authoritarianism? They are attempting to make goddamn fusions reactors, for fucks sake

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Three what now? Do you mean three modules for one station? Or three consecutive stations, one testing technology for the next? E.g. a short time station, e.g. a crew vehicle? I am only aware of one station, Tiangong. Do I have to do another web search? :(

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago
          1. I don’t think monster is an appropriate word for a space station.
          2. so yeah, Tiangong-1 & -2 were single vehicle modules for technology evaluation. Similar to Skylab in concept (single launch, test docking technologies & crewed missions)
          3. as impressive as the Chinese space program is, the ISS is substantially bigger. Sadly, the world has not gotten their shit together in time for a follow-up station, and Gateway is pretty much dead-at-conception.
            • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              No argument there. China definitely has the better and more advanced space program. The ISS might get extended again if it doesn’t break and once people realize there is nothing comparable ready by 2030/31, but yes, eventually, there will be no international nor western space station in orbit for the foreseeable future.