President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will travel to China next month, in what will be the second visit to the country in just over two years and the third meeting with the Chinese president Xi Jinping, strengthening the approach between the two nations in a moment of instability in the global scenario.
Lula will participate in Beijing in the Celac-China meeting on May 13, said the Planalto Palace. The date was resolved during the summit of the Latin American and Caribbean (Celac) in Honduras community this week, and was changed so that the Brazilian president could participate.
The meeting, initially scheduled for June, was anticipated after XI invited Lula to participate. Initially, the meeting would be only at the level of foreign ministers.
According to a Brazilian diplomatic source, Lula conditioned his trip to China to an appointment near his trip to Russia, where he will participate on May 9 of the day of victory at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The evaluation is that it would be impossible to make two long journeys in the same month and just before the Brics summit in Rio de Janeiro in July.
In addition to Lula, the president of Honduras will participate in the meeting in Beijing, who held the presidency of Celac, and the leaders of Colombia and Uruguay, who will take on the entity in sequence. Lula will have private meetings with XI during the visit to Beijing.
XI also confirmed his presence at the Brics summit, in another opportunity for the two presidents to speak. The Chinese president is also expected to come to Brazil for the heads of state of the Global Cop30 Climate Meeting of November in Belém.
The different meetings in just over two years from Lula’s mandate – including two state visits, one on each side – show the strengthening of the relationship between Brazil and China from the inauguration of the Brazilian. In November last year, during the official visit from XI to Brasilia, 37 bilateral agreements were signed, on topics ranging from the Internet to education satellite.
China is the largest commercial partner in Brazil, with which the country had a surplus of $ 30 billion in 2024. In the midst of an unstable geopolitical scenario and the commercial policy of the United States to distribute rates all over the world, the approach with the Chinese becomes inevitable, according to the Brazilian source.
“The natural way is to look for alternatives. China is one of these, just like the Bric, as well as being able to close the European Mercosur-Union agreement,” he said.
“I would call this a risk reduction policy. Today the relationship with the United States has a high level of risk, so it is a natural inclination to seek alternatives. We already have a close relationship with China, we have a lot to happen there,” he added.
Source: Terra
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