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China and Brazil agree to further expand their strategic partnership

Wednesday, April 13th 2011 - 04:30 UTC
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China and Brazil on Tuesday clinched a host of government agreements and economic deals in Beijing to enhance their strategic partnership as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff paid her first state visit to China. Read full article

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  • Be serious

    This Rousseff lady is pretty impressive to say the least. She is gonna take Brazil upwards and onwards. Good news.

    Apr 13th, 2011 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard

    [1] “China-Brazil strategic partnership has become an example for South-South cooperation,” said Hu.
    I don’t like this.
    China is NOT a Developing Country wrt world trade.
    China is not a member of The South – either geographically, or socially. This is disingenuous.

    [2] ‘Hu said that China would enhance strategic coordination with Brazil in international affairs . . . . .’
    I don’t like this.
    This is setting up Brasil against the USA, and can only spell trouble.
    ‘. . . . . and better deal with global challenges like climate change’
    I can see what’s coming:
    (i) China will be selecting key strategic partners with which to offset Carbon. Carbon money will flow selectively to ‘favoured partners’ with rainforests.
    (ii) The strategic partnership will mutate into ‘preferred partner’ for new ‘forest product’ biochemics, etc., where Brasil, as the host country can gain huge cash inflows by playing the OPEN market under REDD+ and the Biodiversity Agreement of Cancun.

    [3] ‘. . . .which includes a purchase order for 35 Brazil's Embraer 190 commercial jets, a deal totalling 1.4 billion US dollars.’
    Good, in itself:
    But how many times have we seen Chinese money buying advanced technology, reverse engineering it to ‘see how it flies’, etc, and the product quickly becoming part of the Chinese portfolio – with the inevitable decline of the parent industry in the country from which it was originally purchased.
    But aircraft sales are aircraft sales, and appear on the balance sheet of the larger trade agreement as a definite positive.

    Yes, I know, I’m an old sceptic; but being old means I’ve seen it all before and recognize things for what they REALLY are.
    . . . . . . Time to read the small print . . .

    Apr 13th, 2011 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Fido Dido

    No Geo, you're an old baby boomer brain dead figure (Baby boomers who were propped up with that yeah we're number one, left vs right and know it all propagande at their government school) that simply can't or just doesn't want to understand that the US doesn't matter anymore. The're finished.

    “China is NOT a Developing Country wrt world trade.”

    Who ones the so called largest economy of the world?
    Ahh yes, China.
    While China is developing rapidly, The US is crumbling rapidly.

    “ I’ve seen it all before and recognize things for what they REALLY are.”
    Really, tell us more.

    Time to read the small print
    Tell that more to Patty Obozo who later has to borrow more money from China when the FED stops buying it's own crap.

    Here some quotes for you and see who does know why China matters but have to be carefull...one is from Lula da Silve and one is from our good old friend George Bush.

    “China is a threat, but we got to do business with them”

    “China is our friend, and we are committed to making the most of China's accession to the WTO.”

    Apr 13th, 2011 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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