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Matt Ferchen
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In The Media
It’s Complicated: The U.S., China, and Venezuela’s Oil Relationship
The United States and China can work together to help Venezuela navigate the challenges facing its crude oil exports sector.
By Matt Ferchen
Published on May 18, 2015
Source: Platts
Venezuela was once the largest source of U.S. oil imports, but when that relationship soured, the Latin American powerhouse turned to a new relationship with China. But as Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang explain, that partnership is not quite what was expected.
Matt Ferchen, resident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, joined to lay out the state of affairs between the three countries and the relationships which hinge on crude trade.
Could the United States and China work together to help Venezuela develop its struggling resource base? Is Venezuela looking to reunite with the United States to bolster its struggling crude export sector? And how has crude oil been used as a political tool in this situation?
About the Author
Matt Ferchen
Former Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Ferchen specializes in China’s political-economic relations with emerging economies. At the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, he ran a program on China’s economic and political relations with the developing world, including Latin America.
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Matt Ferchen, Anarkalee Perera
Recent Work
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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