Brazil’s Lula Says He Doesn’t Want to Choose Between China and US in Trade Fight

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Brazil’s Lula Says He Doesn’t Want to Choose Between China and US in Trade Fight

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has no desire to choose between the US and China as an escalating trade fight between the planet’s two largest economies pushes nations like his own to pick a side.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has defended “very strongly” Chile’s strategic autonomy in the world this afternoon, “having relations with different countries, different regions, without having to choose between them,” in a state visit to Brazil marked by the trade war declared by U.S. President Donald Trump. Along the same lines as Boric, his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said in the joint statement held at the Presidential…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed, on Wednesday (22), that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) will visit Russia and China in early May. The journeys had already been signalled by Lula after his departure from Asia in March, when he was in Japan and Vietnam. The invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lula, is due to participate in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Day of Victory in Moscow, on the next day 9. T…

President Lula da Silva said on Tuesday, the 22nd, that Brazil does not intend to be involved in a “cold war” or to align itself exclusively with the United States or China. According to the PT member, the country's main objective is to maintain good business relations with both sides, without making political choices. “I want to sell and buy,” said Lula, alongside Chile's president, Gabriel Boric. “I don't want to choose between the United Stat…

Americans' biggest trade deficit is with the Chinese. Asian country is the main target of Donald Trump's tariffs