“China recognizes the increasing risk of a regime change and does not want to be on the bad side of a new regime,” said R. Evan Ellis, an expert on Chinese relations in Latin America at the U.S. Army War College. “While they prefer stability, they realize they have to put eggs in the other basket.” Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has resisted pressure at home and abroad to cede power to Mr. Guaidó. Photo: stringer/Reuters The talks are a sign of the apprehensions building with creditors of Venezuela’s leftist government . Over nearly two decades, loans-for-oil deals with China and Russia have provided vital support for Venezuela. Relations flourished under Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, the late socialist strongman Hugo Chávez, who fortified ties with those countries, Cuba, Iran and even India in an effort to combat U.S. power. But commercial and financial ties with these countries have been strained since […]