The Chinese government has decided to send the country’s vice-president, Wang Qisha, to the inauguration ceremony of the new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and hopes that the meeting with the new Brazilian government will lead to a “boost” in the strategic space. relationship between the two countries. In total, about 60 foreign delegations will arrive in Brasília in the coming days.
Discussing its hegemony with the US, the Chinese preferred to send a higher-level delegation than the mission organized by the White House. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin announced at a press conference that Qishan would take the Chinese delegation to Brazil.
In the case of the United States, the choice of the Washington government was US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, although there were hopes that President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris would be present at the inauguration.
Wang, 69, was mayor of Beijing at the height of the SARS epidemic in 2003 and chaired the city’s Olympic committee for the 2008 Games as Xi Jinping’s deputy. He even led China’s anti-corruption efforts among different missions.
“China and Brazil are both major developing countries and important emerging markets,” Wenbin said on Thursday. said. “We are each other’s comprehensive strategic partners. Since diplomatic relations were established 48 years ago, bilateral relations have developed solidly and steadily, with fruitful practical collaborations across various sectors. The comprehensive and strategic nature of our partnership has become increasingly evident, and its global influence is on the rise,” he said.
Vice President Wang Qishan’s visit to Brazil as President Xi Jinping’s special envoy “says a lot about the high importance China places on Brazil and our bilateral relations,” according to the spokesperson.
“We believe this visit will give a powerful impetus to our comprehensive strategic partnership and take it to new heights, bring greater benefits to both countries and peoples, and contribute to regional and global peace, stability and prosperity.”
Lula has already indicated that Beijing will be one of the first international destinations, along with the United States and Argentina.
If the rhetoric of Bolsonarism has tried to make China the target of accusations of some kind of international murderer and communist aggression around the world, the truth is that Jair Bolsonaro’s tenure ends with record-breaking trade and investment relations between the two countries.
The numbers contradict former Chancellor Ernesto Araújo’s continued attacks on Beijing, contradict the president’s speeches against the Chinese vaccine, and show that the strategy adopted by Itamaraty in the early years of government has failed to undermine any rapprochement between Brasilia and Beijing.
In the government, in the early months of 2019, the mandate was to promote full rapprochement with Donald Trump’s US and even forge diplomatic alliances against the Asian country. At UN meetings, while Chinese communism was denounced by Itamaraty, then-Health Minister Luis Henrique Mandetta even admitted that any rapprochement between his portfolio and China was undermined by the Executive.
The truth was very different from Bolsonarist rhetoric. Data from the government showed that by the end of November, China represented 27% of all exports from Brazil to the world.
In other words, one out of every four dollars the country earns from international sales comes from China.
source: Noticias
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