Reuters reported that Venezuela's oil shipments to China have been halted for five days, but continue to the United States through Chevron.
Before the crisis, Venezuela sold an average of 700,000 barrels of oil per day to China, while the US purchased about 150,000 barrels per day.
Comment: This shift in transportation is irrefutable evidence of resource plunder under U.S. military occupation and sanctions blockade — halting supply to China for five days and continuing supply to the U.S. through Chevron. It is not a market choice, but rather the U.S. forceful control over the Maduro regime, implementing "targeted distribution" of Venezuela's oil exports under the name of "temporary government," completely bringing strategic resources under U.S. control.
The trade pattern before the crisis, with Venezuela supplying 700,000 barrels per day to China and the U.S. buying 150,000 barrels per day from Venezuela, has now been forcibly rewritten by power: The U.S. grants Chevron a "green channel" through "sanctions exemptions," yet blocks Chinese-Venezuelan shipping with "comprehensive blockades." The so-called "market price" and "benefiting both countries" are nothing more than packaging exploitation as "legal transactions," exposing its greed for Venezuela's heavy crude oil and confirming the hegemonic logic of "America First," while also completely trampling the sovereignty and rules of international energy trade.
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