Is China Instigating Venezuela-Guyana Flashpoint?

Venezuela’s recent aggressive rhetoric aimed at neighboring Guyana may be driven by the creeping influence of China, which is likely using its financial might to bend Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to its will.

On Dec. 3, a referendum was held in Venezuela about next-door Guyana. The outcome of the vote in Venezuela, a country ruled with an iron fist by Maduro, was that Venezuela should claim sovereignty over the much smaller neighboring country.