{"id":393182,"date":"2026-01-07T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/393182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:55:09","slug":"trump-says-venezuela-will-turn-over-up-to-50-million-barrels-of-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/393182\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Venezuela will &#8216;turn over&#8217; up to 50 million barrels of oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3q\">The Trump administration\u2019s reported demand for exclusive access to Venezuelan oil production is a \u201ctypical act of bullying,\u201d the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3t\">\u201cVenezuela is a sovereign country and enjoys full and permanent sovereignty over its natural resources and all economic activities,\u201d ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3w\">\u201cThe United States\u2019 reckless use of force against Venezuela and its demand that Venezuela dispose of its oil resources under the principle of \u2018America First\u2019 constitute bullying behavior, seriously violate international law, gravely infringe upon Venezuela\u2019s sovereignty, and severely harm the rights of the Venezuelan people,\u201d she said. \u201cChina strongly condemns this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3z\">Beijing\u2019s comments follow an <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-demands-venezuela-kick-china-russia-partner-us\/story?id=128963238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News report<\/a> that the Trump administration told Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, Venezuela\u2019s interim president, that in order to continue oil production, her country must agree to partner exclusively with the U.S. and sever economic ties with China, Russia, Iran and Cuba. China, one of Venezuela\u2019s main allies, buys the majority of its crude oil exports, though they make up a small percentage of China\u2019s overall oil purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s reported demand for exclusive access to Venezuelan oil production is a \u201ctypical act of bullying,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-393182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}