How Will China Respond to Maduro’s Capture? (opens in new tab)

On January 3, the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a nighttime raid on Caracas and flew him to New York to face drug trafficking charges. Trump announced the U.S. would temporarily “run” Venezuela until a transition of power occurs. Beijing immediately released a statement condemning the U.S.’s “blatant use of force against a sovereign state and its actions against the president of another country,” and a similar statement at the United Nations on Jan...