{"id":157179,"date":"2026-09-08T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157179"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:30:06","slug":"trumps-venezuela-oil-deal-why-china-can-wait-and-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157179","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Venezuela oil deal: why China can wait and watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that the United States had secured majority control over some 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil through a private company, the North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), he called it \u201cthe biggest oil deal in history\u201d.<br \/>\nThe White House fact sheet provided the details: NABEP\u2019s 100-year concessions on 17 oilfields with 65 billion barrels of proven reserves, a 35 per cent Pentagon stake, a 20 per cent State Department offtake at cost with&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3366521\/trumps-venezuela-oil-deal-why-china-can-wait-and-watch?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that the United States had secured majority control over some 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}