China offered to strengthen economic ties with Brazil on Monday and defend what it called “fairness” in global trade, days before sweeping US tariffs on Brazilian exports are set to take effect. At a news briefing in Beijing on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said that Beijing was willing to work together with…
Brazil and China agreed on Monday to study the feasibility of a transcontinental railway that could reshape South America’s trade routes by connecting Brazil’s Atlantic Ocean coast to Peru’s Pacific Ocean port of Chancay. The memorandum of understanding was signed between Infra S.A., the Brazilian state-owned company linked to the Ministry of Transport, and the…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend next week’s Brics summit in Rio de Janeiro, marking his first-ever absence from the gathering of leading emerging economies, the Post learned from multiple sources on Tuesday. According to officials familiar with the matter, Beijing told the Brazilian government that Xi had a scheduling conflict. Instead, Premier Li…
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian authorities said. The encounter occurred around 7 p.m. local time Wednesday in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River in the southwestern Amazon….
Brazil recently decided against joining China’s multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This marks a major setback to China’s BRI after India’s refusal to endorse the mega project. With this development, Lula da Silva-headed country becomes the second country after India in the BRICS bloc to deny support. According to special presidential adviser for international…
Brazil has decided against joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, instead seeking alternative ways to collaborate with Chinese investors, a top government adviser said on Monday. Celso Amorim, special presidential adviser for international affairs, told Brazilian newspaper O Globo that Brazil wants to “take the relationship with China to a new level, without having to…