Reply #103: Lol, so it's okay for the U.S. to get in bed with China.

[sabrina 1]

Even while China was cracking down on dissidents after Tiananmen Sq. this country was sending envoys to China to make business deals, and 'open up their capitalist market' there. The U.S. helped China become what they are today. Without the 'friendship' of the U.S. it would have taken China a lot longer to become the threat that they are to the standing of the U.S. as the most powerful country in the world, financially.

But if Chavez makes a few business deals, he's doing business with 'cut-throat capitialists'. I think the Chinese we are dealing with on a far bigger scale, are the same ones he's dealing with. Are there two sets of Chinese officials, one 'cut throat capitalist' group Chavez is dealing with and the other, altruistic, democratic, fair-minded individuals who care about human rights that the U.S. is dealing with???

They need oil, they are not trying to take it from Venezuela, they are willing to buy it. The U.S. slapped the hand of friendship Chavez offered, so that left him free to do whatever is best for his country.

I wonder why, if Venezuela is so unimportant, so much effort goes into attempting to overthrow their democratically elected president, from U.S. backed coups to support for the attempt to destabilize the government? Someone is pouring money into those efforts. Maybe they just have money to burn :eyes: