Just hours after the kidnapping of [[President Nicolás Maduro]] became known, [[Xi Jinping]] convened an urgent meeting of the [[Politburo Standing Committee]], which lasted exactly 120 minutes. There were no communiqués or diplomatic threats, but only the silence before the storm, because this meeting activated what Chinese [[strategist]]s call an “integrated [[asymmetrical war|asymmetric]] response” to respond to [[aggression]] against the partners in the [[Western Hemisphere]], with Venezuela being the landing head for [[Latin America]] in the “backyard of the [[US]].” | Just hours after the kidnapping of [[President Nicolás Maduro]] became known, [[Xi Jinping]] convened an urgent meeting of the [[Politburo Standing Committee]], which lasted exactly 120 minutes. There were no communiqués or diplomatic threats, but only the silence before the storm, because this meeting activated what Chinese [[strategist]]s call an “integrated [[asymmetrical war|asymmetric]] response” to respond to [[aggression]] against the partners in the [[Western Hemisphere]], with Venezuela being the landing head for [[Latin America]] in the “backyard of the [[US]].” |