🇻🇪🇨🇳 Venezuela-China relations 2025 – full mega-what-to-know guide

1/ Relationship level: “All-weather strategic partnership” (最高级别) since 2023 – China’s only one in South America.

2/ Key 2025 high-level contacts

• May 9 – Xi Jinping meets Maduro in Moscow (VE Day 80th). Xi: “firmly support VEN sovereignty & social stability”, pledges deeper energy/agri/tech/education coop

• Nov 22 – Xi sends Maduro birthday letter: categorically rejects “external interference”

• May – Delcy Rodríguez 17 meetings in Beijing incl. VP Han Zheng & CNPC execs → AI in oil + social programs

• June 8 – CCP Intl Dept Wu Hansheng in Caracas meets Diosdado Cabello → new party-to-party cadre training pact

• Aug – DefMin Padrino López + Chinese Amb Lan Hu → “strengthen military coop” amid US Navy deployments

3/ New policies & money

• Nov 2025 – Zero-tariff agreement on ~400 tariff lines (announced Shanghai Expo by Dep FM Coromoto Godoy)

• July 2025 China-CELAC Forum – .2B regional credit line + specific VEN power-grid modernization package (heavy equipment already arriving)

• Revival of Special Economic Zones under 2015-2025 Joint Plan

• Non-oil exports to China +120% H1 2025 (shrimp, cocoa, coffee)

4/ Foreign-ministry statements (2025)

• Yván Gil (Nov): “eternal gratitude to China for rejecting US hostilities in the Caribbean”

• Mao Ning (Aug 20): “China firmly opposes any country threatening use of force against VEN… rejects interference under any pretext”

• Lin Jian (Jul 2024, still quoted): congratulated Maduro re-election & 50th anniv of ties

5/ Military dimension (low-profile but growing)

• Aug-Sep: intensified contacts after US SOUTHCOM ops

• Chinese military analysts openly say VEN is key node for BRI maritime routes; any US action would “trigger Beijing response”

• No big arms deals 2024-25, but training, tech transfer, dual-use logistics increasing

6/ Recent scholarly takes (2024-2025)

• Victor Mijares et al. (New Political Economy 2025): 2001-2023 Chinese engagement → reinforced rentierism, blocked industrialization, fueled corruption

• Kaplan/Penfold (Wilson Center): China now “defensive lender”, protects B exposure, quietly hedges with opposition contacts

• CFR 2025 report: lifeline for Maduro regime but diminishing economic returns for Beijing

• USIP perceptions survey: Venezuelans view China favorably (scholarships, direct engagement) but blame US sanctions for lack of alternatives

• Pepperdine Policy Review (Noah Jackson): recommends partial sanctions reimposition to peel Caracas away from Beijing

7/ Bottom line
China keeps Maduro afloat with oil purchases, selective credits, and diplomatic cover.
Venezuela gives China cheap heavy crude + geopolitical beachhead 90 miles from US allies.

No return to 2007-2014 mega-loan era; relationship shifted from “development partner” to “survival pact”.

Still strategic, still deepening, but far more cautious on the Chinese side.
🇻🇪🇨🇳 November 11, 2025

【有線ポスト】

本日の #彩みくじ 中吉「ヒトコト」を含む計18曲を街中へお届け中です

ヒトコト✕3回
unreachable
追憶の光
stay free
Weeeekend☆
ゼロ ユニバース
愛なんていらない
against
ドラマチックに乾杯
ぼくはおもちゃ
oasis
yonder
Don't hold me back
あいまって。
I Don't Wanna
風の日 https://t.co/RRV1JNPRTY November 11, 2025

6期生(タイムリミット片想い)
⇩
5期生(絶望の1秒前)
⇩
4期生(4番目の光)
⇩
全員楽曲(設定温度)
⇩
1期生(Against)
⇩
2期生(アナスターシャ)
⇩
3期生(三番目の風)

乃木坂愛が凄いよ、さすが久保史緒里だな💜
#久保史緒里卒業コンサート
#乃木坂の史緒里
#久保史緒里卒業コンサート_DAY2 November 11, 2025

⑥タイムリミット片想い→
⑤絶望の一秒前→
④4番目の光→
①②③設定温度→
①Against→
②アナスターシャ→
③三番目の風

誰よりも乃木坂愛が強く、乃木坂が大好きで、
乃木坂に全てを注いできた久保ちゃんが
最大限の愛を表現した構成

乃木坂にきてくれて本当にありがとう。

#乃木坂の史緒里 November 11, 2025

全員で披露するagainstは迫力が凄かったな。1期生が作ってきた乃木坂を繋いでいくんだって気迫が伝わってくるみたいでグッときた。アナスターシャは本当に大好きな曲だからこんなに大切に披露してくれることがただただ嬉しかったな。

#乃木坂の史緒里 November 11, 2025

2025年12月13日
December 13, 2025

VT:R - ValeTudo Resurgence

▼バーリトゥードルール
VT:R Rules
[30分一本勝負/82kg契約]
30 minutes, single round / 82 kg contract

山田崇太郎　SOTARO YAMADA
《PANDA GYM》

vs

Chee Jian Kai チー•ジアン•カイ
(HIKARI MARTIAL ARTS GYM)

【見どころ】
業界関係者や競技者で彼を知らぬ者はいない《最強グラップラー》山田崇太郎がVT:Rゼロのメインに登場。

あの桜庭和志が立ち上げた5対5の団体戦QUINTETでの山田の活躍は目覚ましく
抜きありのQUINTETでは守り抜いての引分け(両者脱落)狙いも作戦のうちとされ、特に山田のような超強豪には引分けを狙い来る相手が多く1勝する=1本を取るのも非常に難しい状況の中
先鋒で出場しその5試合=5人全てを山田1人で1本を極め切りチームを勝利に導くなど
今でも語り草になるような伝説的なエピソードを多数持つ男だ。

対するChee Jian Kaiは打撃をベースとしたマレーシア出身の選手でキックボクシングやムエタイの他にも散打やMMAなどの豊富な格闘技経験を持つ。

組みになればMMAでも好成績を残す山田有利かも知れないが
バーリトゥードはMMAには無い頭突きや金的攻撃が許されているルールなので様々な打撃格闘技経験を持つCheeの打撃が山田の急所を撃ち抜く可能性もあるだろう。

ｰｰｰｰ

A true legend in the grappling world, known by insiders and competitors as one of the strongest grapplers in Japan, Sotaro Yamada steps in as the main event of VT:R Zero.

Yamada’s performances in QUINTET—the 5-on-5 team grappling event founded by the iconic Kazushi Sakuraba—are nothing short of extraordinary.
In QUINTET, where stalemates and double eliminations are often part of team strategy, especially against elite talents like Yamada, scoring even a single submission can be incredibly difficult. Yet Yamada once entered as the team’s first fighter and submitted all five opponents by himself, securing a legendary victory that is still talked about today.

His opponent, Chee Jian Kai, is a Malaysian striking specialist with extensive experience in kickboxing, muay thai, sanda, and MMA.
While many believe Yamada holds the advantage once the fight goes into the grappling or MMA-style exchanges, VT:R is not MMA—headbutts and groin strikes are legal under Vale Tudo rules.
With his wide striking arsenal, Chee may very well land a decisive blow on Yamada in areas not protected under MMA regulations.

A classic clash of elite grappling vs. dangerous, unpredictable striking—and under the raw rules of Vale Tudo, anything can happen.

“We are using a translation tool to translate this text into English.” November 11, 2025

タイリミ→絶一→4光→設定温度→Against→アナスターシャ→三風

この流れ全部完璧だった。

文字だけじゃ伝わらないセトリの羅列。
でも、生で観たらこの展開の凄さが分かる
次何やるか想像が付くのに終始震えてた

#久保史緒里
#久保史緒里卒業コンサート
#乃木坂の史緒里
https://t.co/kaNCXaOTbu November 11, 2025