Venezuela Brings Continuous Humiliation to Zhongnanhai, Accelerating the CCP’s Collapse

Venezuelan expatriates in the United States gathered to celebrate the capture of Maduro. (Video screenshot)

[People News] At the very beginning of the 2026 New Year, bad news has come one after another for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). First, its good friend Iran, near the Atlantic and Mediterranean, is on the verge of collapse; then, overnight, its good partner across the Pacific—Venezuela—underwent a dramatic change. For the CCP, these developments have brought not only losses and fear, but also sustained humiliation. The CCP once believed it had Latin America firmly under its control, yet in a single night it fell from the clouds to the ground and has still not recovered. As far as the eye can see, countries such as Cuba and Colombia are also poised for change, and nations in the southern hemisphere are set to realign their positions. This series of embarrassing events, along with many additional international pressures looming like a collapsing sky, amounts to adding another accelerator to the CCP’s road toward collapse.

Ongoing Embarrassment After the Venezuelan President Was Captured Alive

On the 6th, President Trump announced that Venezuela would hand over 30 to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the United States. Trump wrote in a post: “This oil will be sold at market prices, and the proceeds will be controlled by me, as President of the United States …”

Reuters, citing five sources from government, industry, and shipping circles, revealed that in order to supply the United States with stranded crude oil, it may be necessary to reallocate supplies originally destined for China, shifting crude oil deliveries from mainland China to the United States. In other words, among these up to 50 million barrels of oil, a significant portion may originally have been intended for the CCP’s China.

When Trump made this information public, the senior leadership in Zhongnanhai surely felt a “complex mix of emotions.” Just days earlier, the CCP had loudly declared that it would not yield even half a step regarding its interests in Latin America. Now, not only are Latin American countries realigning themselves with the pro-U.S. camp, but the CCP is also watching astronomical sums of investment vanish into thin air.

And the CCP, apart from hurling a few old clichés at Ministry of Foreign Affairs press briefings—such as “bullying behavior,” “strong condemnation,” and “China’s (the CCP’s) legitimate rights and interests in Venezuela must be protected”—has astonishingly been unable to come up with any new phrases to curse with.

Losing Ground, the CCP Still at a Loss

The president of Colombia has already clearly told Trump that he hopes to resolve disputes over issues such as drugs through negotiations. On January 6, Venezuela also reached an oil agreement with the United States, exporting crude oil to America. The funds obtained will be used only to purchase U.S.-made products, including agricultural goods, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and power grid and energy infrastructure equipment.

To this day, the CCP has been able to do nothing beyond shouting slogans, producing no real effect whatsoever. Under such circumstances, which Latin American country—or any other country following the trend—would still dare to genuinely throw itself into the CCP’s embrace?

What humiliates the CCP even more is that Trump has not only explicitly stated his intention to expel Chinese and Russian influence from certain Latin American countries, but has also clearly said he wants to drive them out of the waters around Greenland—explicitly as a deterrent against China (the CCP).

It gives the impression that the funds the United States obtained from Venezuela will be used to drive Chinese and Russian activities out of the Greenland waters. This effectively means using the CCP’s money in Venezuela to further weaken the CCP’s investment in the Arctic. This is no ordinary humiliation.

Yet the CCP has swallowed it. To date, aside from spreading some false information and expressing opposition under the names of certain European countries, it has taken no action whatsoever. At the January 7 Ministry of Foreign Affairs press briefing, Mao Ning merely said, “China (the CCP) has always advocated handling relations between countries in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.” Hiding behind the United Nations, her tone was so soft it was almost pleading, fully exposing the CCP’s paper-tiger nature.

The CCP is incompetent abroad, and when anger turns to shame, it looks inward to vent on its own people. This time, the U.S. military made a massive show of force to arrest the Venezuelan president and his wife directly from the presidential bedroom. Yet the CCP’s Ministry of State Security, military intelligence departments, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other spy agencies were completely in the dark. CCP diplomats even traveled as a group to the Venezuelan presidential palace the day before the U.S. military operation, showering the president with sweet talk about cooperation and partnership—only to finally wake up after the U.S. military had captured Maduro alive and taken him to New York, then scramble in panic, “in a rush,” “rolling and crawling” back to Beijing.

The CCP’s Intelligence Incompetence Exposes the Paper Tiger

The incompetence the CCP has revealed in all aspects goes far beyond what the term “paper tiger” can describe—it is an outright humiliation. What frightens the CCP even more is that the U.S. military appeared to have complete knowledge of Maduro’s daily routines, the layout of his bedroom, the thickness of steel doors, and how long it would take to melt them. Without betrayal by close associates around Maduro, how could the U.S. military have known all this?

Now, Zhongnanhai’s intelligence agencies are likely lying flat as well. Everywhere there are double-dealers, fence-sitters, and people who outwardly comply but secretly defy. It is hard to guarantee that there are not many intelligence operatives around Xi himself who would betray him. Which close associate can truly be trusted?

So where have the CCP’s intelligence agencies—including the Cyberspace Administration, public security departments, united front departments, the CPPCC, news organizations, and some so-called democratic parties—been directing their intelligence-gathering efforts?

Looking back over recent years, what one often sees in the news is the CCP launching cyberattacks, electronic intimidation, legal warfare, and public-opinion warfare against international grassroots protest groups, including dissidents, democracy movements, faith groups, Falun Gong practitioners, and organizations they have founded. Those targeted are ordinary civilians, whose activities are either public or already posted in online news, with virtually no intelligence value. Yet the CCP has poured astronomical amounts of money and effort into collecting “intelligence” on them. This is truly laughable—an enormous waste of manpower and resources spent on worthless tasks.

Next, it is very likely that the heads of the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Staff, or other intelligence agencies will be “disciplined.” It would not be surprising if some are taken down as “tigers” on economic charges; at the very least, someone will have to take the blame.

Reuters reported that the timing of the U.S. military operation caught Beijing completely off guard. A CCP official privately admitted that Maduro’s arrest was “a heavy blow” to Beijing.

The CCP’s Plight Is the Inevitable Result of Its Malignant Nature

Chung Chih-tung, an assistant research fellow at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said: “This U.S. military operation can be said to have delivered a resounding slap in the face to the CCP. In recent years, the CCP has been planting its flags particularly in South America, supporting so-called anti-American forces. This time it received a very clear warning: in Central and South America, it would be better to keep its hands clean and not stir up trouble.”

They say a new year’s beginning foretells the whole year, that the start of everything signals success or failure, good or ill. With this series of humiliations piling up, who knows what else awaits the CCP this year, forcing it to swallow bitterness in silence. In fact, all of this is the inevitable result of the CCP’s inherently evil nature. The CCP’s persecution of the Chinese people and the harm it has inflicted on the world have formed an irreversible vicious cycle. Within this cycle of evil, it becomes blinded by profit, deluding itself into believing it is the world’s leader, acting without restraint and doing as it pleases—these are themselves signs of madness before destruction. If Iran and Cuba undergo change, and Colombia and other South American countries draw closer to the United States while distancing themselves from the CCP, then it is likely the CCP will face even more humiliations this year, and these events will accelerate its collapse.

(People News first publication)
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