Brazil’s Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of China (CPC) signed an agreement on Wednesday to strengthen their cooperation and increase the number of high-level visits to both countries.
The two-page agreement states that Brazil and China are the largest developing countries in their respective hemispheres and mutual “strategic global partners.” The parties pledge to uphold “the principles of independence and self-determination, full equality, mutual respect, and non-interference in internal affairs.”
Both parties also pledged to “strengthen permanent strategic communication on prominent regional and international issues.” In April, heads of state Xi Jinping and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed an agreement under which state news agencies Xinhua and EBC will jointly publish stories and a limited number of photos each month.
Congresswoman Gleisi Hoffmann, the Workers’ Party national chair, said in a video message that the visit of high-ranking Chinese Politburo officials to Brasília demonstrated the importance of the Workers’ Party to the CPC and to China-Brazil relations. “We now want to have a closer relationship, especially in party leadership, organizational experience, communication, and political education,” she said.
On Thursday, Li Xi, a member of the Politburo, visited Vice President Geraldo Alckmin.
Brazil has grown closer to China during the Lula administration. Dilma Rousseff, the former president who took over the leadership of the Shanghai-headquartered BRICS bank, appointed a China apologist as her aide.
Adriana Abdenur, a special adviser on foreign policy, told U.S. lawmakers that “if you strike at China, you hit Brazil. And you hit the other developing countries.”
Search
