President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended the integration between Latin American countries, a strong commercial partnership and strategy with China during his speech at the summit meeting between Celac (Latin America, the Caribbean region) and the Chinese government.
According to LULA, the only way to develop Latin America and progress is through integration between countries in the region.
He said: “There are no outputs for any country (Latin America) individually. We have 500 years of the date that proves this.
The Brazilian president also said that China was essential to economic growth in the region, which helps reduce social inequality at the beginning of this century through trade and investments.
According to him, the sector that is the most obvious is the infrastructure, as the Chinese support was and still is essential.
If not He also defended, again, pluralism and free trade, saying that he must have balanced exchanges between countries.
In addition to the Brazilian leader, the left -wing chiefs in Chile, Gabriel Borik, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro were at the meeting. Chinese President Xi Jinping, the meeting host, also spoke,
He said that his government supports Latin America and the Caribbean countries in expanding its influence on the multilateral scenario.
Defense of pluralism was the point of rapprochement between Brazilia and Beijing, especially after the imposition One -sided definitions President Donald Trump from the United States to almost the exports of each country.
Trade between China and Latin America exceeded $ 500 billion for the first time last year, according to Xi.
The Asian giant is also the largest commercial partner in Brazil and most members Celac.
He concluded without his speech by saying that the future and the aspirations of Latin American countries depend on their leaders much more than other countries, despite the pursuit of alliances.
The Brazilian leader said: “The future of Latin America does not depend on President Xi Jinping, the American president, and does not depend on the European Union. It depends on pure and simply we want to be wonderful or remain young.”
