The World’s Biggest Loser: With Maduro Gone, China’s Dreams of Dominating South America Are Dying
People gather to celebrate the capture of Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro, outside the Federal District Court in Lower Manhattan where he is expected to appear before a federal judge in New York City, on Jan. 5, 2026. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
The bombs that fell on Caracas destroyed a couple of billion dollars in Chinese-made military equipment, whose radars, missiles, and planes—which Beijing had billed as “capable of countering the West”—proved no match for American firepower.
Steven W. Mosher
Author
Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America’s leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.
