{"id":584856,"date":"2026-08-30T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584856\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:56:22","slug":"us-targets-chinas-telecoms-grip-in-venezuela-with-new-sanctions-carve-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584856\/","title":{"rendered":"US targets China\u2019s telecoms grip in Venezuela with new sanctions carve-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is opening Venezuela\u2019s telecommunications sector to new investment and technology while explicitly excluding Chinese companies, a move that could reshape a market where <a data-entity-bundle=\"topics\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"551a9ca0-963e-4505-98ea-4570f832770e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/huawei\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Huawei<\/a> and <a data-entity-bundle=\"topics\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"c47e9d0d-f02f-485d-a152-ccc60328da26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/zte\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ZTE<\/a> have become deeply embedded and give Western suppliers an opening as the country expands its 5G networks.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued two general licences easing some sanctions restrictions on Venezuela\u2019s telecommunications sector, including transactions involving state-owned provider CANTV and mobile operator Movilnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is opening Venezuela\u2019s telecommunications sector to new investment and technology while explicitly excluding Chinese companies,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69,22069],"class_list":["post-584856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-scmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}