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seized a second oil tanker just over the weekend, and Reuters, citing documents, reports the ship and its oil had been bound for China.
China opposes all, quote, unilateral and illegal sanctions, China's foreign ministry said.
It also said Venezuela has, quote, the right to develop relations with other countries.
Venezuela has slammed the U.S.
China buys about 80% of Venezuela's oil now.
Some of it shipped on unregistered boats to evade U.S.
But for China, that's just a figurative drop in the bucket.
About 4% of its total crude oil imports come from Venezuela.
China leases out its pandas to countries, including the U.S., where the host country pays China sometimes upwards of a million dollars an animal every year to have the pandas.
Japan has rented pandas continuously from China for the last half century until now.
The pandas Xiaoxiao and Leilei will not have their stay in Japan extended and are leaving for China in late January.
China's been unhappy with Japan's new prime minister because she'd made remarks characterizing a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan nearby.
as a threat to Japan's survival.
Since those remarks, China has warned its citizens not to travel to Japan, put import controls back on some Japanese seafood, and delay Japanese films from being shown in China.
Claire Lai says her father is an ailing 78-year-old, and he's seen a precipitous decline in health over the last years of his five-year imprisonment so far.
He has heart issues, he has skin problems, he has infections, back issues, waist problems.