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Misleading headline.
The meeting already happened and I watched the press conference of Michel and Ursula. In fact, Ursula mentioned that most companies are not even Chinese but have some presence in China and China is constructively engaging on the issue even before this summit (probably China threw them a token bone to stop nagging but Russia-China trade won't be affected).
Mind posting the link to that @MarKoz81's post?
Though, realistically speaking, while having the US stuck in more wars in its own backyard is a good thing for China and Russia, neither can offer any significant assistance to Venezuela (and Cuba as well).
If China and Russia wanted to support Venezuela, the best thing they could do is send in part of their Navy to Venezuela to guard it against US military intervention. For example China could send in surface ships and Russia could send in nuclear submarines. But I doubt this would work in the long run. That place is just too close to the US, so they have the military superiority there. And Venezuela isn't the stablest of places to begin with. Regardless of what they think of the US extracting oil from the offshore shelf in Guyana, it's a bad idea for Venezuela to act militarily.
Still, Russia probably doesn't care much at this point about Western sanctions, but I kind of doubt China would send in their Navy.
The Chinese Navy is basically geared up for a conflict in the Pacific, not in the other side of the world.
At this point, the US Navy is heavily committed in the Middle East, and they have two carriers in the Pacific, so I kind of doubt the US could respond quickly to an intervention by Venezuela. But you can bet it would happen eventually.
For those here who have asked -- if only rhetorically -- why Xi Jinping doesn't "pull a Modi" in a Chinese fighter jet: Well, there's your answer.