2 h. ago How Trump’s Venezuela strike humiliated Russia and worried China

US President Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela and the kidnapping of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, have put Russia and China – widely considered two of Caracas’ most important international partners – in a difficult position. If they do not significantly reduce ties with the Latin American nation, they risk Washington’s retaliation. But who has more to lose, Moscow or Beijing? Unlike previous American leaders, Trump has not made any pretence about protecting democracy and human...

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1 week ago Trump's Venezuela Strike and Its Implications for China and Japan

Trump's Venezuela Strike and Its Implications for China and Japan  JAPAN Forward

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1 week ago Trump's Venezuela strike will likely change China's regional calculations

Trump's Venezuela strike will likely change China's regional calculations  Nikkei Asia

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2 w. ago US oil refiners win, Chinese rivals lose in Trump’s Venezuela strike

US oil refiners win, Chinese rivals lose in Trump’s Venezuela strike  Reuters

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2 w. ago Venezuela Was 'Easy Prey': Trump's strike reverberates in China, Russia, Iran and even Israel

Venezuela Was 'Easy Prey': Trump's strike reverberates in China, Russia, Iran and even Israel  Ynetnews

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2 w. ago Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been captured and flown from the country, US President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday after confirming that US forces conducted what he called “a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader”. In a post on social media, Trump said Maduro’s wife was also seized in the operation conducted along with US law enforcement. Trump said he planned to deliver a statement later on Saturday. At least seven explosions rang out and low-flying aircraft...

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2 w. ago Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after ‘large scale strike’ by US

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after ‘large scale strike’ by US  South China Morning Post

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2 w. ago Trump hints at land strike against drug cartels as Venezuela pressure mounts

A throwaway remark last week by US President Donald Trump has raised questions about whether US forces may have carried out their first land strike against drug cartels in Venezuela. Trump said the US knocked out a “big facility” for producing trafficking boats, as he was discussing his pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in an interview broadcast on Friday. “They have a big plant or a big facility where they send, you know, where the ships come from,” Trump said in an...

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2 w. ago Trump says US ‘hit’ drug boat loading facility in Venezuela pressure campaign

US President Donald Trump has indicated that the US has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the US offered few details. Trump initially seemed to confirm a strike in what appeared to be an impromptu radio interview Friday, and when questioned Monday by reporters about “an explosion in Venezuela”, he said the US struck a facility where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up”. “There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the...

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