China 'Shocked' by US Intervention, Forgets US Invented it
China's declaration of being “deeply shocked” by U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, as reported by Bloomberg, is less a statement of surprise and more a masterclass in performative diplomacy. The U.S. playbook for 'regime change' or 'democratic promotion' (read: protecting corporate interests) in Latin America has been stapled shut since the Bay of
Pigs, if not earlier. From the 1973 coup in Chile that installed Pinochet, a U.S.-backed dictatorship, to countless interventions in Central America throughout the Cold War, Washington has treated the region as its own backyard, consistently overriding national sovereignty when convenient. Beijing's surprise is either feigned innocence or a calculated diplomatic jab, deliberately ignoring the
historical precedent of U.S. exceptionalism when it comes to meddling. The real shock would be a U.S. administration *not* attempting to unilaterally dictate outcomes in countries rich in resources and inconveniently outside its direct sphere of influence. For the U.S. apparatus, 'international law' is less a binding document and more a suggestion box, selectively consulted when it serves their
'national interests.' The question isn't why the U.S. acted, but rather why anyone still pretends this isn't standard operating procedure for the global hegemon.