Maduro calls on China as US mounts pressure on Venezuela. Will it answer?

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By Uriel Blanco, CNN Amid the sharp escalation in tensions between the United States and Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro mentioned China, the United States’ biggest economic rival, during a speech about education in the country. While speaking about tutorials to learn how to do new things during the closing of the “First Pedagogical Congress of Bolivarian Teachers,” Maduro paused to present his new cell phone, which, he said, was a gift from China’s leader Xi Jinping. Maduro said he communicated with Xi through that new phone by satellite. “You want to learn something, you look for a tutorial. I want...