The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday for operations to stop Venezuela’s illicit trafficking of sanctioned oil, claiming that the seizures, not the trafficking, were the true international crime.
President Trump announced on December 16 that the United States would declare the Venezuelan socialist regime, led by dictator Nicolás Maduro, a foreign terrorist organization. As a result, Washington would impose a “total and complete blockade” on tankers carrying sanctioned oil into and out of the country. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. government announced its first seizure of an oil tanker…
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