FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan children wave flags as they welcome China's President Xi Jinping at Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas July 20, 2014. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned on Friday against attempts to bring "misfortune" to the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in China next week, after the United States threatened to pull out if Beijing refused to let a representative of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido attend.
The Washington-based IADB, the biggest lender to Latin America, voted last week to replace Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's board representative with Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann, who is backed by Guaido.
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