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Chinese officials condemned the US seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers headed for China on Monday, calling the act a “serious violation of international law.”
“Venezuela has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, said during a press conference. Jian also stated that China opposes unilateral enforcement of sanctions that lack “basis in international law” and infringe on the sovereignty of other nations.
US troops boarded and seized Venezuelan tanker, Centuries, on Saturday. According to the White House, though the vessel was not on the US Treasury’s sanctioned vessel list, it carried state-owned oil as part of Venezuela’s “shadow fleet.”
US President Donald Trump has called the “Venezuelan Regime” a foreign terrorist organization and has claimed it uses oil resources to fund human trafficking, drug smuggling, murder, and kidnapping. Trump has relied on this rationale to establish a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers” to and from Venezuela.
18 U.S. Code § 981 gives the federal government the authority to seize assets “of any individual, entity, or organization engaged in planning or perpetrating” a crime of terrorism.
This is the second Venezuelan oil tanker the US has recently seized. On December 10, the US seized the M/T Skipper, which the Justice Department claimed was “being used in an oil shipping network supporting Hizballah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force,” two US-designated terrorist organizations.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has condemned the seizures, calling the US’ actions “piracy” and claiming that Trump’s security justifications are a pretense to capture Venezuelan oil.
Tensions continue to rise between the US and Venezuela. The US has struck over twenty boats allegedly smuggling drugs from Venezuela in recent months, killing over eighty people. The US targeted another Venezuelan tanker Monday after it had not stopped following US Coast Guard attempts to board it.
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“Venezuela has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, said during a press conference. Jian also stated that China opposes unilateral enforcement of sanctions that lack “basis in international law” and infringe on the sovereignty of other nations.
US troops boarded and seized Venezuelan tanker, Centuries, on Saturday. According to the White House, though the vessel was not on the US Treasury’s sanctioned vessel list, it carried state-owned oil as part of Venezuela’s “shadow fleet.”
US President Donald Trump has called the “Venezuelan Regime” a foreign terrorist organization and has claimed it uses oil resources to fund human trafficking, drug smuggling, murder, and kidnapping. Trump has relied on this rationale to establish a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers” to and from Venezuela.
18 U.S. Code § 981 gives the federal government the authority to seize assets “of any individual, entity, or organization engaged in planning or perpetrating” a crime of terrorism.
This is the second Venezuelan oil tanker the US has recently seized. On December 10, the US seized the M/T Skipper, which the Justice Department claimed was “being used in an oil shipping network supporting Hizballah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force,” two US-designated terrorist organizations.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has condemned the seizures, calling the US’ actions “piracy” and claiming that Trump’s security justifications are a pretense to capture Venezuelan oil.
Tensions continue to rise between the US and Venezuela. The US has struck over twenty boats allegedly smuggling drugs from Venezuela in recent months, killing over eighty people. The US targeted another Venezuelan tanker Monday after it had not stopped following US Coast Guard attempts to board it.
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