{"id":20938,"date":"2026-01-04T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20938"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:25","slug":"maduros-arrest-isnt-about-oil-its-about-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20938","title":{"rendered":"Maduro\u2019s Arrest Isn\u2019t About Oil \u2014 It\u2019s About China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This war may have really been about China. China has been working hard to expand its influence in South America, and had been succeeding&nbsp;heavily in Venezuela. China may have had plans to base missiles in Venezuela. In a war over Taiwan, China could disrupt&nbsp;US shipping in the Caribbean. It is in US&#8217;s interest to not have great powers like China and Russia threatening it from nearby countries like Venezuela.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83c\uddfb\ud83c\uddea Maduro\u2019s Arrest Isn\u2019t About Oil \u2014 It\u2019s About China \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9dHm4b6Klg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This war may have really been about China. China has been working hard to expand its influence in South America, and had been succeeding heavily in Venezuela. China may have had plans to base missiles in Venezuela. In a war over Taiwan, China could disrupt US shipping in the Caribbean. It is in US&#8217;s interest to not have great powers like China and Russia threatening it from nearby countries like Venezuela. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F9dHm4b6Klg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[13],"tags":[729,89,552,1915,272,355,314,1545,659,259,576,1700,619,741,158],"class_list":["post-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-east-asia","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-latin-america","tag-military","tag-oil","tag-south-america","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20939,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions\/20939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}