Overview
- In a Friday phone call, Xi Jinping told Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that China and Brazil should safeguard developing nations’ shared interests and uphold the UN’s central role, and Lula’s office said both agreed on strengthening the institution.
- Xi said both countries are constructive forces for maintaining world peace and improving global governance.
- He highlighted the 2024 alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with Brazil’s farming, infrastructure, and energy transition plans as an example of South–South cooperation.
- Xi said China aims to remain a dependable partner to Latin American and Caribbean nations and to build a China–Latin America community with a shared future.
- Reuters placed the outreach weeks after the Trump administration seized Nicolás Maduro for prosecution in the United States, an operation the UN criticized as a dangerous precedent under international law.