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Chinese local company gets 51%.
They learn the expertise.
That is how they did it.
They made it so that the outside company can come in and make money, but the ownership is always 51% the local Chinese company, and it's part of the rules.
They have to share the expertise.
It's a tax write-off?
He's going to change the tax code or something?
Right, but the argument there is that the
escalating internal chaos within Venezuela is then they can just figure it out, resolve it, and do what he's asking.
But really, if they're cut off from resources and all of the little oil that currently exists has been seized and put in a U.S.
account, like it's just, the expectation is that things just get worse there.
Like it just gets worse.
It gets more chaotic and nothing gets done.
Like it gets more fractured.
The Delce Rodriguez's tenuous grip on power falls apart.
Which, by the way, from a moral POV, the only way this is even remotely acceptable is when you were saying that Maduro stole an election.
We're going to get rid of him and change things so they could have elections in a democratic place in Venezuela.
If you're doing it from a pure, like, we are stealing.