The world watched in disbelief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delta Force stormed Caracas, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was dragged from his bed, and Donald Trump declared the U.S. \u201cin charge\u201d of Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within hours, China unleashed a blistering rebuke and backed an emergency UN showdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China\u2019s furious response to the U.S. raid on Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has turned a risky operation into a full-blown geopolitical crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beijing\u2019s denunciation of Washington as a self\u2011appointed \u201cworld\u2019s police\u201d lands at the<\/p>\n\n\n\n
very moment Trump boasts that America is \u201cin charge of Venezuela now,\u201d openly threatening further missions if Caracas \u201cdoesn\u2019t behave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For China, and for many governments across Latin America and Europe, that language sounds less like counter\u2011narcotics enforcement and more like the return of gunboat diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Trump widens his rhetoric to Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico, regional leaders are scrambling to contain the fallout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A rare joint statement from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spain warns that the raid shreds the core principle of sovereignty and sets an \u201cextremely dangerous precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet Trump is celebrating a \u201cbrilliant\u201d success, even as an emergency UN Security Council session looms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between a defiant White House and a mobilized international community, Venezuela has become the stage for a far larger struggle over who gets to decide the rules of global power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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