The members of the ministerial delegation already indicate that Chinese companies tend to take more time to evaluate the strategic infrastructure project in South America
Special sent to Beijing – If nothing changes in the next few hours, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should return to Brazil from the trip to Beijing without achieving one of his main objectives: attracting the Chinese capital in biceanic railway works. The Brazilian delegation has already given signs that this objective so persecuted in the state visit can subsequently be and asked the companies owned by the Chinese state to give a go -ahead in 30 days.
The construction of the railway is one of the most important points for the South American integration plan that aims to connect Altic and Pacific and create a network of flow of Brazilian products integrated for China – and vice versa – as well as other markets in Asia.
The flow of the flow aims to create the infrastructure necessary to reduce time and transport costs and has its most complex stretch on the railway crossing the Andes.
The state visit was preceded by travel on both sides. The Chinese analyzed the projects in Brasilia and Brazilian ministers such as Rui Costa (House Civil) and Simone Tebet (planning) leader of delegations in Beijing.
But, according to the members of the Planalto Palace, the Chinese have indicated that they will not yet enter the strategic project of the biceanic corridor. They suspect that there is a little geopolitical barrier.
The corridor is one of the outbreaks of the new portfolio of PAC projects and Brazil still insists on the fact that it is embraced by China, as part of the synergy agreement with the Chinese initiative New Rota da Seda (Belt and Road Initiative).
China continues to press Brazil to join its project, which already brings together 150 countries, many in Latin America, and should now receive entry from Colombia.
However, the Lula administration was divided on formal adhesion and rejected this option last November. There was discontent from the Chinese.
One of the reasons was the political sensitivity and the diplomatic sign that Brazil would have aligned too much with Beijing. The two countries have therefore chosen to launch a plan that tunes into the CAP and a new silk route.
The global MEGAPROJECT infrastructure financed and built by China from all over the world is over $ 2 trillion dollars and went to the United States and Donald Trump. After threatening to take the Panama channel, he managed to press the government of José Raúl Mulino to abandon the Chinese strategy.
“Brazil wants to collaborate with everyone and does not accept the veto from anyone,” said Rui Costa, when he asked for the potential for the retaliation of the Americans. “Brazil preaches multilateralism, it does not work on the basis of the threat and tension of any country”.
A Chinese diplomat said Estadão That Brazil needs a plan and can still take time, such as tradition, so that Chinese companies make such a great decision.
According to Minister Rui Costa, the Chinese also warned that Brazil must form an supply chain to see the works, with the training of staff.
The owner of the Civil House indicated that the works of the Midwest Integration Railroad (FI), in Goiás, in the second stretch, can be attractive for the Chinese, as well as the third section of the West Preste Integration Railroad (Fiol), which part of Iléus (BA). Then there is the challenge of the intersection to reach the Pacific, the most demanding engineering project.
“A biceanic connection is not simple, it is a gigantic investment agreement, with the” small “detail of crossing the Andes. It is not trivial,” Costa said, without estimating a deadline for the Chinese to decide. “What we want in advance is to call them to participate in this project under construction in Brazil.”
Rui Costa said that the Chinese have a slower decision process and that is why the Brazilian government plans to create early presentation forums that will be read in the infrastructures (roads, railways, ports and airports) so that they can actually appear in competition. The edicts, he recalled, lasts 100 days.
Minister Simone Tebet requested an investment decision from the Chinese, regarding the Biocean Corridor Railway, in 30 days – in time for the forecast visit of Xi Jinping in Rio de Janeiro in July, at the Brics summit. He appealed to Chinese businessmen and government authorities by stating that Brazil does not have enough budget resources to carry out the project alone and depends on the partnership. National private investments are also insufficient for the railways, said the minister.
“Today we have a conversation with the Chinese government, especially when it comes to the railway, and we have a deadline, in the next 30 days, we are witnessing the opportunity to create an Atlantic railway project in the Pacific, snatching Brazil in the railway area considered the Brazilian stable. The port of Chancay,” said Tebet.
“All investments, highways, ports, airports, cabotage, connectivity, borders safety, customs, we have the necessary resources from Brazil and when it comes to South America, we have a portfolio that is still open $ 10 billion so that all countries can finance and do this integration. What is missing for Brazil?
Source: Terra
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