Lula and the meeting with Xi Jinping

*This report was updated at 18:55 pm on Friday (14)

Lula is in China to strengthen economic ties with Brazil's main trading partner and claims that the country “is back” on the international scene, with the intention of taking on a mediating role in the conflict in Ukraine.

Squid was received by the president Xi in a red carpet ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People of Beijing, where a military band played the national anthems of the Brazil and China. The Brazilian president attended a ceremony at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square (Heavenly Peace) and met with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang before the meeting with Xi.

During the first leg of the trip, on Thursday in Xangai, Squid questionor the use of the dollar as a global currency, just weeks after his government established an agreement with Beijing for commercial operations with the real and the yuan, without the need for exchange in the American currency. Lula's speeches generated controversy.

In China, Lula defends alternative currency for the BRICs in speech at Dilma's inauguration

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff took office as president of the New Development Bank (NDB) in Shanghai, China, where Lula is traveling with a delegation of businesspeople. During his speech, Lula spared no criticism of the traditional financing model of international financial institutions and questionor the use of the dollar as currency for the countries that make up the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

This Friday (14), Lula and Xi Jinping signed15 deals commercial and partnership. The terms include cooperation agreements in space, research and innovation, digital economy and combating hunger, exchange of communication content between the two countries and trade facilitation.

Other documents signed deal with electronic certification for products of animal origin and the sanitary and quarantine requirements that must be followed by slaughterhouses when exporting meat from Brazil to China. Brazil is the largest supplier of beef to the Asian country and 60% of Brazilian production is sold to China.

War in Ukraine

In conversations with a series of ministers, in addition to bilateral topics, representatives of the two countries discussed dialogue and negotiation to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The topic, however, ended up receiving superficial mention in the joint statement released five hours after the meeting ended.

“Brazil positively received the Chinese proposal, which offers reflections leading to the search for a peaceful way out of the crisis. China positively welcomed Brazil's efforts for peace. The parties called on more countries to play a constructive role in promoting a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine. The parties decided to maintain contacts on the matter”, says the statement.

The controversy over Taiwan

The information that has generated the most controversy, coming from the meeting between Lula and Xi Jinping, is the statement that deals with the diplomatic understandings between the two countries, mainly in relation to Taiwan. Brazil reiterated its “firm adherence to the one-China principle”.

What does that mean? That, for Brazil, the government of the “People's Republic of China is the only legal government that represents all of China, while Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory”.

Taiwan's independence is a crucial issue between the United States and China: at the beginning of the month, the Americans began military exercises in the Philippines days after the Chinese carried out military maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan is an island that, until now, maintains a democratic government autonomous from the Chinese Communist Party. The United States is interested in this continuing, which provokes the anger of the Chinese government and is the main source of tension between the nations.

(With information from AFP and Agência Brasil)

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