Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro shakes hands with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi as they meet in Beijing, China Friday.
Xi said China would support the Venezuelan government’s efforts to seek stability and development.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Friday in Beijing.
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Maduro is in China on a four-day trip to discuss economic agreements and to bolster his country’s recently unveiled economic recovery plan.
Li told Maduro that China supported Venezuela’s efforts to develop its economy and improve people’s livelihoods, and was willing to provide what help it could.
Xi told Maduro the two countries should promote mutually-beneficial cooperation to take relations to a new stage, and consolidate political mutual trust, state television said.
Xi said China would support the Venezuelan government’s efforts to seek stability and development.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro lays a wreath at the mausoleum of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, China Friday. Photo: Reuters
Prior to his talks with Xi and Li, Maduro visited the Mao Zedong mausoleum to pay tribute to the Chinese leader. He honored Mao by bowing three times in front of a wreath at the massive mausoleum facing Tiananmen Square and heaping praise on Communist China’s founder, according to Channel Asia News.
“We are beginning this state visit in the best way because we have come to pay tribute to the great helmsman Mao Zedong. … I was very moved because it really reminds of one of the great founders of a multipolar 21st century,” Maduro said as he went on to praise Mao as a “giant of the homeland of humanity” and a “giant of revolutionary ideas.”
Maduro’s visit to China comes at the invitation of Xi. He said the Chinese leader’s vision of a “common destiny for humanity” is more than welcome as it comes “without a hegemonic empire that blackmails, that dominates, that attacks the people of the world.”
Meanwhile, back in the Imperial west…
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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
