Operation Absolute Resolve and China’s Takeaways: A Conversation with Ryan Berg and Evan Ellis

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Ryan Berg and Evan Ellis join us to assess the regional and global implications of the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. They discuss how Beijing is interpreting the operation, what it signals about U.S. priorities, and the lessons China may draw for its military planning and approach to Taiwan. Ryan Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at CSIS. Evan Ellis is a research professor of Latin American studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute and a nonresident senior associate in the Americas Program at CSIS.

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Operation Absolute Resolve and China’s Takeaways: A Conversation with Ryan Berg and Evan Ellis is an episode from ChinaPower by CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 39:31 long.

This episode was published on Jan 15, 2026.

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