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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.

            • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
              291·
              2 months ago

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

                • OldChicoAle@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  41·
                  2 months ago

                  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.

                  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
                    31·
                    2 months ago

                    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.

        • rustyfish@piefed.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          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?

      • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Americans still associate China with shit quality merchandise while glossing over that that merchandise is made shit quality because American Importers selected that level of quality and completely ignoring that they make I Phones and other High quality tech.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        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? :(

            • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              He may have meant one space station and some extra moon missions or something? They have been popping off a fair bit.

              Honestly, I don’t care what country dominates and wins the space race, i will just be impressed that we don’t kill each other trying.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            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
                21·
                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.

      • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        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.worldBannedEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

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

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          Invasion of Korea lmao. The north had democratic elections, the south had a sham election that resulted in an administration which put people who’d colluded with the japanese back into power, and the US was literally murdering anyone left of Syngman Rhee as a prelude to taking the rest of the peninsula.

          Whatever you think about Korea now, China was absolutely fighting for the liberation of its people.

          The sino-vietnamese war was 25 years later, and a much more legitimate criticism of China’s foreign policy.