Why Venezuela Was the Move—and Taiwan Was the Message By now, the surface-level take has exhausted itself. Helicopters. Explosions. Maduro removed. Commentators arguing legality while anchors search for historical analogies. That layer is finished. What matters now is what this operation did to the global chessboard, particularly to China —and why Beijing should understand January 3, 2026, as a direct warning shot across the Taiwan Strait. This was not a regional cleanup. Thi