September 13, 2023

"[We are] ready for what will be a historic visit for the strengthening of cooperation ties and the construction of a new world geopolitics," Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wrote on social media last Friday when he landed in southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the first stop in his trip to China between September 8 to 14.

In Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday welcomed President Maduro's fifth visit to China and called on the two sides to push for more fruitful China-Venezuela strategic cooperation, bring more benefits to the two peoples and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.

Both leaders on Wednesday announced the elevation of the China-Venezuela relationship to an all-weather strategic partnership, ahead of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two nations next year.

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