That's a very interesting long-term question. Thank you for the question.
I believe your characterization of the situation and the relations between Venezuela and China is more or less accurate. I don't have all the details of the price at which they might have been selling the oil, but absolutely oil sales to China from Venezuela have stopped.
The Venezuelans, we understand, have considerable debt to China. How that will be repaid is yet to be determined. We can presume that it won't be a priority in the discussions between the U.S. and Venezuelan authorities.
I'm not an expert on great power competition. It's certainly not within my area of responsibility, but as a foreign policy observation, China tends to be very patient in terms of its long-term interests. We haven't seen specific measures taken by China toward the Venezuelan authorities to address the current situation or to try to cash out those loans, but that may be because it's only been a couple of months.
