
TOKYO -- China must cut its ties with the Nicolas Maduro government in Venezuela, the president of the Foreign Policy Commission in the country's parliament told the Nikkei on Wednesday.
China is Venezuela's largest investor. According to the China-Latin America Finance Database, developed by the Inter-American Dialogue, China invested more than $67.2 billion in Venezuela from 2007 to 2018. In 2018 alone, the China Development Bank invested $5 billion in developing the country's oil sector.