This is going to be a trend everywhere.
China may not have been especially dependant on Venezuela, but Venezuela itself wasn't the point either.
The point was that US now holds absolute dominion over decisions by all states of western hemisphere (Canada pretends it isn't Latino and it doesn't apply to them, but explanation...won't take too long).
Panama, Mexico, Columbia ... like, even in Brazil(!) question of nukes got raised up again; as things stand now, they have no way to physically resist US coercion(they for obvious reasons aren't exactly happy on Donroe).
Frankly speaking, this will be a major test of popular Chinese "do nothing - win" meme. B/c even if ~3% of oil supply(Venezuela) were negligible - half a trillion of trade with Latin America (including major metal dependancies) isn't negligible at all.
I am not a hardcore enough SW fan, but if i remember correctly, Empire was more of a confederacy in all but name, as individual planets had powerful local forces, and could easily muster forces to resist imperial forces; Empire had only one bet to become a proper nation(death star), and it went poof.
In comparison, US states...do of course have their national guards, sometimes quite numerous. but those are semi-fake by design; you can't take them out of US force and resist central government, not without many years of work.
