There is reasonable consensus on what is imposed on Brazil in the middle of the fight between the United States and China. It is having strategic intelligence and pragmatic neutrality.
The opposite of what Lula is doing in the current stay in Beijing, repeating the mistakes made last week in Russia.
Our situation is delicate precisely because Brazil is a superpower in food production, mainly exported to China.
Brazil is this superpower in agribusiness also for the access that has the cutting -edge technologies controlled or exported by the country that China wants to break down: the United States. That is, it depends on markets on one side and technologies on the other. Being good with both is vital for our national interest.
Our national interest does not coincide with Lula’s personal interest, committed to flattering Russia and China. For ideological reasons, but also for deep ignorance of historical facts.
Today, Lula compared his electoral victories to the Chinese Revolution of 1949. Both, said Lula, the revolution and the elections he won, took millions of people out of misery. What took hundreds of millions of misery in China was a capitalist revolution – which came after the communist.
And what helped Brazil grow 20 years ago was exactly this capitalist revolution in China, and the commodities boom in which the first petista government surfed.
China and Russia play their game in the current geopolitical confrontation. Depending on Lula, with Brazil the choke. But it’s their game, it shouldn’t be ours.
This content was originally published in Waack: Lula play Russia and China’s game in the world fight on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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