Emma Belmonte and Paulína Ovečková
In recent months, the X account of the Venezuelan media outlet Polianalítica, followed by over 63,000 users, published a series of posts portraying Beijing as a steadfast political and security backer of Caracas. On November 24, a post claimed that “China announced it will provide military help to Venezuela if it faces foreign invasion.” Other X users flagged the claim as false, yet the post was reshared more than a thousand times. It generated a large number of mocking responses, as users quickly identified the announcement as ludicrous.
This episode proved both telling and ironic – less than six weeks later, Venezuela’s president was captured in a U.S. military operation. The Polianalítica post was a prime example of the distorted and often exaggerated perception of China’s role as a security actor in Latin America.
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