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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met on April 14 in Beijing with the Chinese head of state, Xi Jinping, with whom he hopes to strengthen ties. Lula wants to mark Brazil’s return to the international scene after the Bolsonaro era and show that his country can play a role in the “global South”, an ambition shared by Beijing.
China promised “new opportunities” for Brazil on Friday, during a meeting in Beijing between President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who the day before harshly criticized the omnipresence of the US dollar.
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“China will pursue high-quality development, accelerate the creation of a new development paradigm, and devote itself to promoting high-level opening up,” the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement reported by state media. The development of China will open “new opportunities” for Brazil and the world, added the same source.
Imprint on the international agenda
In Shanghai, President Lula had stated the day before that Brazil was “back on the international scene”, wanting to turn the page on isolation under the presidency of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
For Emmanuel Véron, a specialist in contemporary China, there is a desire on the part of Lula, who has just been re-elected as head of the Brazilian Federation, to leave his mark on the international agenda.
“What is interesting to see is that Brazil is trying to find its way again in Latin America, but also in the global South. That explains the increasingly dense relations with China, but which are in the continuity of the last 20 or 30 years of bilateral relations between China and Brazil, especially with industrial consortiums, agri-food consortiums, with a reprimarization of the Brazilian economy, precisely with the strengthening of Chinese trade and economic ties”, explains Véron.
China’s ambition to become the leader of the “global South”
Offensive on all fronts, Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to put Beijing at the center of a new world order. He makes no secret of his ambition to establish China as the leader of the global South, the area that brings together four-fifths of humanity. This initiative includes the de-dollarization and yuanization of the economies of the global South in a context of international sanctions.
“The issue of de-dollarization, and ultimately of yuanization, is an issue that has been worked on for several months and we see that the Chinese are now taking action because they have managed to convince the Russians, not without difficulty,” comments Emmanuel Veron. “Brazil itself is very favorable to this type of yuanization of the economies. It is also the case of the economies of the Middle East, I am thinking of the agreements with Saudi Arabia, a historical ally of the United States in terms of security, military and diplomatic, and We are also thinking of Iran, in a context of international sanctions,” he added.
For this specialist in contemporary China, there is a strategic context that is that of the sanctions that Washington is carrying out, and that Beijing precisely shows as a kind of front against the global South: “Beijing tries to be the leader of the global South, it tries to advance to their pawns in this de-dollarization, this yuanization and find a path of leadership within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, within the Brics and we have an expansion of partner countries before the end of the year and next year, which will enrich the ranks of these various non-Western international organizations,” he concludes.
