Latin America, the "backyard" in the eyes of the United States, once again "caught fire". The second round of the Brazilian election has come to an end a few days ago. Former Brazilian president and representative of the left wing, Lula won the election with a slight advantage and will serve as Brazilian president again.
Then, my Foreign Ministry sent congratulations to Lula and gave Brazil a "big gift". Recently, the General Administration of Customs of , my country, , announced that 136 Brazilian companies were approved to export corn to China.
This cooperation made both China and Pakistan happy, but the United States' face must be very ugly, because Brazil's corn exports rank second in the world. Once it can pour into the Chinese market in large quantities, it means that the United States may lose part of its market share in China .
. Lula returns, and Brazil receives the first "big gift" from China
, a grain order, not only a signal for China to enhance cooperation with Brazil, but also a reminder to the United States that maintaining China-US political relations is of great significance to bilateral trade.
Although my country is the second largest corn producer in the world, according to the current supply and demand situation, we can achieve self-sufficiency, but we still import a large amount of corn every year. According to statistics, my country's total import of corn exceeded 23 million tons last year, ranking first in the world. The reason why
still chooses to import a large number of people while being able to achieve self-sufficiency is mainly to ensure food security. On the one hand, the corn we produce alone can only barely maintain domestic supply and demand, and have poor risk resistance. On the other hand, as an important food crop, corn must be strategically reserved in order to ensure the stability of food supply.
It is precisely because we have made a large amount of strategic reserves in advance that this time we can offset the impact of the new crown epidemic and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on my country's food prices as much as possible.
In addition to making strategic reserves in advance, it is necessary to ensure food security to ensure diversified imports. Previously, most of my country's imported corn came from the two major grain exporters of the United States and Ukraine. Now Ukraine is deeply involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the United States' hostility to China is gradually deepening, and it is very necessary to adjust the import and allocation of food resources.
In fact, as early as May this year, my country began to consciously adjust its corn import configuration, but the General Administration of Customs chose to send this signal when the Brazilian election came to an end, which is obviously more positive. The most likely reason is that Lula, a friendly to China, will take up the post of Brazil again, and China-Pakistan relations will usher in a new round of development opportunities. has opened up the domestic corn market on a large scale to Brazil, which is a "big gift" we gave to Lula.
2. Before Lula, China-Pakistan relations were once blocked
Review of the 48 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan, bilateral relations have remained friendly and stable overall. However, since 2019, China-Pakistan relations have also been challenged and hindered. The key reason is that Brazil's current president and far-right wing represent Bolsonaro . After the president, who was called "Brazil's version of Trump " by the media, came to power, Brazil's foreign policy changed significantly.
The most important feature of Bolsonaro's foreign policy is to mark with ideology. Like Trump, he is a typical conservative person, so he once strongly advocated priority in developing bilateral relations with the United States.
There are big differences between Bolsonaro before and after taking office in China. Before taking office, he made a lot of radical and negative remarks about China. But after taking office, his attitude changed. He not only expressed his intention to strengthen cooperation with China, but also took the initiative to visit China to repair bilateral relations. It is actually normal for
to undergo such a change. On the one hand, China and Pakistan have a deep political foundation. As early as 2012, the two sides established a comprehensive strategic partnership with . The improvement of political relations has also accelerated the cooperation and exchanges between the two sides. Therefore, although Bolsonaro was not friendly to China during his election campaign, he had to start dealing with China-Pakistan relations based on the status quo after taking office.
On the other hand, China and Pakistan have a close trade relationship. China has always been an important trading partner of Brazil and replaced the United States as Brazil's largest trading partner in 2021, which makes Bolsonaro unable to be too radical in dealing with relations with China, otherwise the domestic economy will suffer a huge blow.
Although China-Pakistan relations did not undergo a major change during Bolsonaro's term, they have also brought many obstacles to the further development of bilateral relations. However, after Lula, a friendly to China, China-Pakistan relations are expected to usher in new development opportunities.
. Lula was elected as the new president of Brazil, and China-Pakistan relations ushered in new opportunities
In 2003, Lula was finally successfully elected as the president of Brazil after three failures. , he was a worker and has always maintained an extremely pragmatic style in foreign policy. Although his election was not favored by Western world at the time, it turned out that instead of letting Brazil's economy collapse, he also achieved great achievements.
During his eight years of office, Brazil's average annual GPD growth rate reached 4.3%. On the premise of maintaining rapid economic growth, he also greatly alleviated the gap between the rich and the poor in Brazil and helped nearly 23 million people get rid of poverty. 's series of dazzling political achievements made him named Brazil's most popular president.
Now that Lula is re-elected, it has at least three meanings. has the greatest significance, and China-Pakistan relations will usher in new opportunities. In terms of China policy, Lula had previously strongly advocated developing friendly relations with China. During his previous tenure, China-Pakistan trade volume increased by 12 times.
Now, Lula has returned to politics and was elected again. The political obstacles to China-Pakistan bilateral relations will be eliminated, and China-Pakistan relations will be taken to the next level. The development of China-Pakistan relations has three major benefits for us: First of all, my country's energy and grain imports will be further diversified, which to a certain extent helped my country release the potential of economic development .
China is a major manufacturing country, and the high growth in industrial output value is also accompanied by huge energy consumption. Therefore, how to ensure that the energy supply can be smooth and stable has become the top priority for us to stabilize the economic development trend.
Brazil is a major oil exporter and an important energy supplier to my country. In addition to oil, my country also imports a large amount of iron ore and other mineral resources from Brazil every year. Therefore, the more friendly the political relations with Brazil, the more secure China's energy imports can be, so that economic development can avoid being restricted by resources.
Secondly, Brazil is one of the most influential countries in Latin America. The quality of relations with Brazil will also directly affect our relationship with Latin American countries.
In recent years, with the rise of China's influence and the shift of the United States' strategic focus eastward, China's political and economic and trade relations with Latin America have begun to heat up, and more and more Latin American countries have begun to seek deepening cooperation with China for development.
According to statistics, in the first half of this year, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the overall trade volume between China and Latin American countries still maintained a strong growth trend of 14.4%. As a major country in Latin America, Brazil maintains friendly bilateral relations with Brazil, which is particularly important for us to consolidate and develop China-Latin America relations.
More importantly, Brazil is an important partner of our opposition to the hegemony of the United States. China-Pakistan relations are a model of South-South cooperation and can also become "comrades-in-arms" on the road to anti-hegemony.
China and Pakistan are both developing countries , and are also important emerging powers. Their own development has been threatened by the US hegemony for a long time. Therefore, on the road to anti-hegemony, Brazil can completely become our "comrade-in-arms". Our strategic plan is not to replace the United States as the new hegemon, but to unite most countries and break the hegemony order.
Our goal is to promote the formation of a multi-polar world pattern, so as to make the entire world more diversified and international relations more democratic. In this process, we cannot rely solely on our own energy, but we must unite as many like-minded friends as possible.
has the second significance and has promoted the rapid development of the cooperation mechanism of BRICS countries. Since the establishment of the BRICS Cooperation Mechanism, the cooperation mechanism is becoming more and more extensive. As one of the five BRICS countries, Brazil's election as president of Brazil, Lula, who advocates broadening international cooperation, will inevitably promote the further development of the BRICS mechanism.
has the third significance, symbolizing that Latin America will be further controlled by the left wing. plus Lula, Latin America's five major economies are currently all governed by the left. After decades of transformation, the Latin American left has become less radical, but more gentle and more pragmatic.
They advocate breaking away from the control of the United States and achieving complete independence in the sense of the whole sense, which also means that Latin America will collectively "turn left", the distance between the region and the United States will become further and further hit.
. As China and Pakistan look forward to it, the United States looks ugly
For Brazil, the return of the former most popular president will bring hope to the current dilemma facing Brazil. For China, Brazil will adopt a more pragmatic foreign policy and China-Pakistan relations will be enhanced. But the United States should look quite ugly in the face of Lula's election.
On the one hand, the United States and Pakistan are important agricultural products and energy exporters in the world. From this perspective, the two sides are in a competitive relationship. The heating up of China-Pakistan relations and the coldness of Sino-US relations will inevitably lead to China beginning to give more markets to Brazil in terms of agricultural products and energy, rather than the United States, and the United States' interests in China will be impacted.
On the other hand, after Lula came to power, U.S.-Pakistan relations may face challenges. At the same time, the improvement of China-Pakistan relations will drive the development of more cooperation projects in Latin America, the development of the BRICS cooperation mechanism will also accelerate, and China's international influence will inevitably be further enhanced, which is undoubtedly the situation that the United States least wants to see. But there is nothing else in the United States now.
The facts of China-Pakistan cooperation prove that this change unseen in a century is developing in a direction that is increasingly conducive to China. to put it bluntly, this is a historical necessity. Specifically, such a pattern change is closely related to the completely different diplomatic concepts of China and the United States. The concept of win-win cooperation and mutual respect has made China more and more friends. The concept of "America first" has made the United States fewer and fewer friends.
China has always been an important trading partner of Brazil and replaced the United States as Brazil's largest trading partner in 2021, which makes Bolsonaro unable to be too radical in dealing with relations with China, otherwise the domestic economy will suffer a huge blow.Although China-Pakistan relations did not undergo a major change during Bolsonaro's term, they have also brought many obstacles to the further development of bilateral relations. However, after Lula, a friendly to China, China-Pakistan relations are expected to usher in new development opportunities.
. Lula was elected as the new president of Brazil, and China-Pakistan relations ushered in new opportunities
In 2003, Lula was finally successfully elected as the president of Brazil after three failures. , he was a worker and has always maintained an extremely pragmatic style in foreign policy. Although his election was not favored by Western world at the time, it turned out that instead of letting Brazil's economy collapse, he also achieved great achievements.
During his eight years of office, Brazil's average annual GPD growth rate reached 4.3%. On the premise of maintaining rapid economic growth, he also greatly alleviated the gap between the rich and the poor in Brazil and helped nearly 23 million people get rid of poverty. 's series of dazzling political achievements made him named Brazil's most popular president.
Now that Lula is re-elected, it has at least three meanings. has the greatest significance, and China-Pakistan relations will usher in new opportunities. In terms of China policy, Lula had previously strongly advocated developing friendly relations with China. During his previous tenure, China-Pakistan trade volume increased by 12 times.
Now, Lula has returned to politics and was elected again. The political obstacles to China-Pakistan bilateral relations will be eliminated, and China-Pakistan relations will be taken to the next level. The development of China-Pakistan relations has three major benefits for us: First of all, my country's energy and grain imports will be further diversified, which to a certain extent helped my country release the potential of economic development .
China is a major manufacturing country, and the high growth in industrial output value is also accompanied by huge energy consumption. Therefore, how to ensure that the energy supply can be smooth and stable has become the top priority for us to stabilize the economic development trend.
Brazil is a major oil exporter and an important energy supplier to my country. In addition to oil, my country also imports a large amount of iron ore and other mineral resources from Brazil every year. Therefore, the more friendly the political relations with Brazil, the more secure China's energy imports can be, so that economic development can avoid being restricted by resources.
Secondly, Brazil is one of the most influential countries in Latin America. The quality of relations with Brazil will also directly affect our relationship with Latin American countries.
In recent years, with the rise of China's influence and the shift of the United States' strategic focus eastward, China's political and economic and trade relations with Latin America have begun to heat up, and more and more Latin American countries have begun to seek deepening cooperation with China for development.
According to statistics, in the first half of this year, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the overall trade volume between China and Latin American countries still maintained a strong growth trend of 14.4%. As a major country in Latin America, Brazil maintains friendly bilateral relations with Brazil, which is particularly important for us to consolidate and develop China-Latin America relations.
More importantly, Brazil is an important partner of our opposition to the hegemony of the United States. China-Pakistan relations are a model of South-South cooperation and can also become "comrades-in-arms" on the road to anti-hegemony.
China and Pakistan are both developing countries , and are also important emerging powers. Their own development has been threatened by the US hegemony for a long time. Therefore, on the road to anti-hegemony, Brazil can completely become our "comrade-in-arms". Our strategic plan is not to replace the United States as the new hegemon, but to unite most countries and break the hegemony order.
Our goal is to promote the formation of a multi-polar world pattern, so as to make the entire world more diversified and international relations more democratic. In this process, we cannot rely solely on our own energy, but we must unite as many like-minded friends as possible.
has the second significance and has promoted the rapid development of the cooperation mechanism of BRICS countries. Since the establishment of the BRICS Cooperation Mechanism, the cooperation mechanism is becoming more and more extensive. As one of the five BRICS countries, Brazil's election as president of Brazil, Lula, who advocates broadening international cooperation, will inevitably promote the further development of the BRICS mechanism.
has the third significance, symbolizing that Latin America will be further controlled by the left wing. plus Lula, Latin America's five major economies are currently all governed by the left. After decades of transformation, the Latin American left has become less radical, but more gentle and more pragmatic.
They advocate breaking away from the control of the United States and achieving complete independence in the sense of the whole sense, which also means that Latin America will collectively "turn left", the distance between the region and the United States will become further and further hit.
. As China and Pakistan look forward to it, the United States looks ugly
For Brazil, the return of the former most popular president will bring hope to the current dilemma facing Brazil. For China, Brazil will adopt a more pragmatic foreign policy and China-Pakistan relations will be enhanced. But the United States should look quite ugly in the face of Lula's election.
On the one hand, the United States and Pakistan are important agricultural products and energy exporters in the world. From this perspective, the two sides are in a competitive relationship. The heating up of China-Pakistan relations and the coldness of Sino-US relations will inevitably lead to China beginning to give more markets to Brazil in terms of agricultural products and energy, rather than the United States, and the United States' interests in China will be impacted.
On the other hand, after Lula came to power, U.S.-Pakistan relations may face challenges. At the same time, the improvement of China-Pakistan relations will drive the development of more cooperation projects in Latin America, the development of the BRICS cooperation mechanism will also accelerate, and China's international influence will inevitably be further enhanced, which is undoubtedly the situation that the United States least wants to see. But there is nothing else in the United States now.
The facts of China-Pakistan cooperation prove that this change unseen in a century is developing in a direction that is increasingly conducive to China. to put it bluntly, this is a historical necessity. Specifically, such a pattern change is closely related to the completely different diplomatic concepts of China and the United States. The concept of win-win cooperation and mutual respect has made China more and more friends. The concept of "America first" has made the United States fewer and fewer friends.
