{"id":56803,"date":"2025-12-23T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56803"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:34:11","slug":"ron-paul-us-seizes-tanker-carrying-chinese-oil-beijing-not-amused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/23\/ron-paul-us-seizes-tanker-carrying-chinese-oil-beijing-not-amused\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: US Seizes Tanker Carrying Chinese Oil&#8230; Beijing Not Amused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The US has seized a third tanker this month carrying oil from Venezuela, and this time it may have grabbed a hot potato: the ship is carrying oil purchased by a Chinese company and headed to China. China is Venezuela&#8217;s largest oil customer and the seizure of its property could signal a crisis in US\/China relations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n_RdaPQTFS4?si=7rQAcaJt9I1NPeF4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The US has seized a third tanker this month carrying oil from Venezuela, and this time it may have grabbed a hot potato: the ship is carrying oil purchased by a Chinese company and headed to China. China is Venezuela&#8217;s largest oil customer and the seizure of its property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-56803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56807,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56803\/revisions\/56807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}