Maduro met with Chinese counterpart hours before capture

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Just hours before his capture by the U.S., Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro met with a Chinese envoy, highlighting the great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the Western Hemisphere. Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, the Chinese government’s special representative for Latin American affairs, at the Miraflores Presidential Palace on Friday — reaffirming Caracas’ strategic ties with Beijing and pledging to build what he called a “multipolar world of development and peace. Hours later, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had struck targets across Venezuela and taken Maduro and his wife into…