{"id":44979,"date":"2019-04-02T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44979"},"modified":"2019-04-02T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:31:15","slug":"china-sends-over-120-troops-to-venezuela-in-defiance-of-us-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44979","title":{"rendered":"China Sends Over 120 Troops To Venezuela In Defiance Of US Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-02\/china-sends-over-100-troops-venezuela-defiance-us-warnings\">China Sends Over 120 Troops To Venezuela In Defiance Of US Warnings<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It doesn&#8217;t appear last Friday&#8217;s strong warning from national security adviser John Bolton for countries &#8220;external to the Western Hemisphere&#8221; to keep their militaries out of Venezuela had the intended effect. Bolton&#8217;s and other White House statements saying &#8220;Russia has to get out&#8221; came following Russian Air Force planes landing in Caracas with about 100 troops, which the Kremlin said were there as &#8220;specialists&#8221; servicing existing defense equipment contracts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/chinese-army-arrives-in-venezuela-just-days-after-the-russian-miltary\/\"><em>Al-Masdar News<\/em><\/a>, citing defense analyst photographs and local reports, &#8220;<strong>more than 120 soldiers from the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army&nbsp;<\/strong>arrived at Venezuela\u2019s Margarita Island to deliver humanitarian and military supplies to the government forces.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/china%20venezuela.png?itok=S-kccZfK\"><em>Chinese soldiers pose with Venezuelan troops, via Al-Masdar News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military flight appears to have touched down on Sunday, two days after a prior Chinese cargo plane delivered&nbsp;65 tons&nbsp;of medicine and other&nbsp;aid to Venezuela. The Chinese troops are also there ostensibly to assist with the humanitarian mission, but it appears Beijing is also now alongside the Russians&nbsp;<strong>pushing back against Washington ultimatums to stay out of Venezuela<\/strong>, after repeatedly condemning any external coup plotting against President Nicolas Maduro.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We strongly<strong>&nbsp;caution actors external to the Western Hemisphere<\/strong>&nbsp;against deploying military assets to Venezuela, or elsewhere in the Hemisphere, with the intent of establishing or expanding military operations,&#8221; Bolton had warned in his<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190329133831-cw8pj\">&nbsp;statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Sends Over 120 Troops To Venezuela In Defiance Of US Warnings It doesn&#8217;t appear last Friday&#8217;s strong warning from national security adviser John Bolton for countries &#8220;external to the Western Hemisphere&#8221; to keep their militaries out of Venezuela had the intended effect. Bolton&#8217;s and other White House statements saying &#8220;Russia has to get out&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,4487,25502,851],"class_list":["post-44979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-john-bolton","tag-military-troops","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44980,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979\/revisions\/44980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}