Posted on 09/22/2018 2:44:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Interest in the goodwill visit has been building since the Pentagon announced in August it was sending its own hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, to neighboring Colombia to provide free medical treatment for thousands of Venezuelan migrants fleeing their homes amid widespread food and medicine shortages.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, in a visit to Colombia last month, called the ship's deployment a humanitarian mission to deal with the fallout of President Nicolas Maduro's mismanagement of the economy. The United Nations estimates that 2.3 million
Venezuelans have fled the crisis-torn country in recent years, mainly to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
But top officials in Venezuela's socialist government saw the Comfort's deployment as a threat, part of an effort by the U.S. to pave the way for a military intervention on humanitarian grounds.
Padrino on Saturday said the Chinese boat's visit was part of the government's "strategic defense operation." The Peace Ark's humanitarian tours around the world have become a sign of China's outreach efforts and Beijing's ambitions of gradually expanding its military influence abroad.
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Your people are fleeing by the millions and all you can do is think of others to blame for giving humanitarian aid?
Wow.
They’ll be hungry an hour later
Did they bring along some freighters filled with food and toilet paper?
toilet paper?
Butt washing toilets ?
No, it’s a hospital ship. They’ll be sick again an hour later.
CC
bttt
Fine by me. Venezuelans need all the help they can get.
And China can see up close how bad the situation is.
WOW! Talk about a Trojan horse!
Ancient Chinese remedies.
I’d live in China long before I lived in Venezuela.
China should still be encouraged to do things like this.
Commies have to stick together
Russia and Iran are there too....birds of a feather.
Hold your breath...
The Chinese might actually improve life in Vz...
Guess, the Monroe Doctrine has been dead a long time....
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