China slams Trump administration over US sanctions on Cuba

China has publically condemned U.S. unit connected Cuba, accusing Washington of violating planetary instrumentality and calling for an extremity to sanctions and the decades-long embargo. 

The comments echo Beijing’s long-standing signifier of backing smaller communist governments it says look overseas threats, including Cuba and Venezuela.

"China is profoundly acrophobic astir and powerfully condemns the U.S. moves, and urges the U.S. to halt depriving the Cuban radical of their rights to subsistence and development, halt disrupting determination bid and stability, halt its violations of planetary law, and instantly assistance its blockade and sanctions against Cuba," the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said successful a connection connected X connected Tuesday morning.

The station was shared by China’s embassy successful the U.S.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during an planetary concern gathering astatine The Great Hall Of The People connected March 28, 2025, successful Beijing, China. (Ken Ishii - Pool/Getty Images)

Beijing has routinely criticized U.S. sanctions policy, framing economical unit connected communist governments arsenic a menace to determination stability.

There is nary naval blockade presently successful place, though U.S. officials person said it remains an option.

The escalation follows the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, a determination that importantly disrupted Cuba’s entree to Venezuelan lipid and triggered outrage from Havana.

The cognition and its fallout marked a melodramatic escalation successful U.S.–Cuba tensions, with President Donald Trump declaring that Cuba would nary longer person lipid oregon wealth from Venezuela — a determination that severed Havana’s longtime vigor and fiscal lifeline.

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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his medication was not negotiating with Washington, contempt President Donald Trump’s threats to propulsion Cuba into a woody present that Venezuelan lipid volition nary longer beryllium supplied. (PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his medication was not negotiating with Washington, contempt Trump’s threats to propulsion Cuba into a woody present that Venezuelan lipid volition nary longer beryllium supplied.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump medication is actively seeking Cuban officials consenting to onslaught a woody that could facilitate authorities alteration by the extremity of 2026.

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Captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is escorted, arsenic helium heads towards the Daniel Patrick Manhattan United States Courthouse for an archetypal quality to look U.S. national charges successful New York City, Jan. 5, 2026.  (Adam Gray/Reuters)

In June, Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum tightening U.S. argumentation toward Cuba, reinforcing sanctions and question bans, restricting fiscal dealings with Cuban military-linked entities, and enforcing the economical embargo.

Fox News’ Nicole McManus contributed to this report.