The sound of the U.S. Navy's artillery in the Caribbean waters continues to put pressure on Venezuela. How to break the situation has become the most concerned issue of the Maduro government. At the critical moment, the guarantee sent by China made the country have no scruples.
According to CCTV news reports, Maduro's government suddenly issued a statement announcing the closure of embassies in Norway and Australia and the opening of new diplomatic missions in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.
The focus is on the next sentence. Venezuela said that the move is to "reallocate strategic resources" and strengthen alliance relations with countries in the global South.
The main reason is to look at the country's oil energy, Venezuela is the world's largest oil reserve country, the "fat meat" in front of the eyes, how could the White House let go?
Maduro also understood the reason for his “sins,” but why he turned to another country and suddenly closed the embassy?
Objectively speaking, the reason Maduro did so, I fear, was inspired by the recent cooperation of the CPC.
A month ago, at the time when Trump threatened to take action on Venezuela, media revealed that Chinese companies agreed with the Venezuelan side to sign a 20-year oil mining agreement, giving the two sides a guarantee of cooperation.
Combined now with the Maduro administration’s “reallocation of strategic resources,” it’s easy to see that Venezuela has already understood that what the United States wants is precisely the magical treasure of the country’s collapse.
For any country, oil cooperation is an important strategy related to development. Now that the United States wants to use military pressure to force Venezuela to bow, Maduro is doing the opposite and withdrawing energy cooperation with its American allies.
In this way, those countries involved in the dispute will naturally try to put pressure on the U.S. in order to correct the situation, while Venezuela turns its energy focus to the global South, which is conducive both to deepening regional ties and to changing its international status.
Moreover, I believe many people have seen that this move still has some shadow of Russia. After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the West joined forces to sanction Russian energy. Putin immediately announced that the market focus would shift to Asia, Africa and Latin America, which further strengthened relations with China and India.
Of course, Russia dares to confront the West, relying on its own military strength, Venezuela’s dependence, in addition to the resistance of the whole people, there is also the support of many developing countries, including China, especially Latin America.
Trump's current move is actually not only putting pressure on Venezuela, but also trying to push the whole Latin America back to the shadow of "Monroe Doctrine". Once Maduro falls, the US invasion of Latin America will only become more rampant.
Therefore, the Latin American Bolivarian Alliance has warned the Trump administration, defining the US military operation as an “illegal invasion” and pushing Venezuela to defend its own sovereignty, which is another big bastion for Maduro.
Now, as Maduro begins to weaken energy cooperation with the West and turns to the global South, the atmosphere of opposition between the US Commission is undoubtedly more tense, and the outcome of this dispute may also determine the choice of the whole of Latin America.
Of course, the trend of global multipolar development is irreversible, even if Trump uses military force to force Latin America to compromise with the United States, there will always be a day of contradiction.