China Blinks, Oil Gets Seized, and the Hemisphere Gets Locked Down A week later, the fog has lifted — and the reactions tell the real story. China isn’t posturing.China isn’t “expressing concern.”China is panicking, and that alone confirms what the Maduro operation was actually about. This was never Venezuela-first policy. It was hemisphere-first enforcement, and Beijing just ran face-first into the wall. The moment China realized the rules changed When Donald Trump moved fro