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2026-01-17 Caribbean-Latin America
China Reportedly Demanding Venezuela Honor Its Debts
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Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-17 01:52|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1836 views ]  Top
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1 They need the money for buying up Canada?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-01-17 04:54||   2026-01-17 04:54|| Front Page Top

2 Pretty typical playbook for China. Give loans the country can't pay back, then take their ports and airfields for their use as collateral.

Trump would play a masterful move to bring the deep water port into US control in exchange for the oil profits to pay China off.
Posted by DarthVader 2026-01-17 09:33||   2026-01-17 09:33|| Front Page Top

3 How, how, capitalistic of them! Comrades, let the mayor of New York City explain how un-socialistic they're being.
Posted by Procopius2k 2026-01-17 11:25||   2026-01-17 11:25|| Front Page Top

4 Russia demands US fund withdraw $225.8bn Tsarist bond lawsuit or face dismissal bid

At the last fin de siècle of the millennium Tsar Nicholas II had borrowed billions from the international capital markets, largely based in Paris in those days, to fund Russia’s economy. Pre-revolution Russia was a military and agricultural powerhouse with easy access to the capital markets. However, Lenin’s revolution threw Russia into chaos and the new Soviet government defaulted on the debt. For more than 100 years, investors, and their descendants, have been trying to recover their money ever since.

Good luck, China.
Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-17 11:53||   2026-01-17 11:53|| Front Page Top

5 Those two are going to be at each other's throats soon.
Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-17 11:56||   2026-01-17 11:56|| Front Page Top

6 Venezuela probably has plenty of information regarding China that the US would compensate to help them through this short term cash flow issue.
Posted by Super Hose 2026-01-17 12:37||   2026-01-17 12:37|| Front Page Top

7 
I thought the CCP - Venie Oil deals and payola in NON-Trump years covered the loans payments?

CCP oil groups = Anhui Erhuan Petroleum Group, Kerui Petroleum and collection of others.

Like when, China stepped in to rescue Venezuela with loans of over $60++ billion in exchange for oil.

Then there was the Venezuela signed oil deal with France also.

Then there is the Hunter Biden backdoor $$$$ million-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company(s) in 2022-3?

Where did the Venezuelan Dictatorship spend or steal, close to $100 Billion in 10 years, go into Hyper-Hyper Inflation and still almost go bankrupt?
Posted by NN2N1 2026-01-17 16:16||   2026-01-17 16:16|| Front Page Top

8 ...they hadn't figured out how to run Day Care or Learing Centers in Minnesota yet.
Posted by Procopius2k 2026-01-17 16:32||   2026-01-17 16:32|| Front Page Top

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