China Slams US After Capture of Venezuela’s Maduro,

China has criticised the United States after it captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, and said that no country should act as the “world’s judge”, news agency Reuters reported.
“We have never believed that any country can act as the world’s police,” Chinese Foreign Miner Wang Yi told his Pakani counterpart Ishaq Dar in Beijing on Sunday. He said the sovereignty and security of all nations must be respected under international law.
These were Wang’s first public comments since images of Maduro blindfolded and handcuffed shocked Venezuelans on Saturday. Maduro is in a New York detention centre awaiting a Monday court appearance on drug charges.
Actions US a blow to China-Venezuela ties, says Chinese official
President Donald Trump has said the US will oversee Venezuela’s government for now. This has put China’s partnership with Caracas under strain. “It was a big blow to China,” a Chinese government official told Reuters.“We wanted to look like a dependable friend to Venezuela.”
Maduro’s son studied in China in 2024 
Maduro’s son visited China’s top-ranking ‌Peking University in 2024, where ‍he enrolled ⁠in 2016, ​they said, adding they were unsure whether he would return despite years of diplomatic engagement with Caracas around his education and ties ⁠to China.
China has helped Venezuela since US sanctions were tightened in 2017.Story continues below this ad
In 2024, China bought about $1.6 billion worth of Venezuelan goods, Reuters reported. Almost half of this was crude oil.
2018, China’s state oil firms had invested around $4.6 billion in Venezuela, according to the American Enterprise Institute.
— with inputs from Reuters