Mercosur should work together to reach FTA with China, says Yamandú Orsi

Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

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Uruguayan presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi told Argentine businessmen in Buenos Aires on Wednesday that he remains “skeptical” about the possibility of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) concluding a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), but insisted that it must remain united to reach such an understanding with China. He also admitted before the Inter-American Council for Trade and Production (CICyP) that “Mercosur is malfunctioning”. Read full article

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Brasileiro
The candidate knew how to use words diplomatically. Something out of fashion in these troubled times of humanity.
Sep 19th, 2024 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse -2
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bushpilot
The Chinese people are enslaved under a murdering, tyrannical government. Nobody should have anything to do with that government.

Nicolas Maduro is just a dictator. There is no “special geopolitical case” of dictatorship. Venezuelans are enslaved by thugs.

Was that undiplomatic?

These are troubled times because Iran, and Russia, and China are evil. That is all.

Was that a little “out of fashion”?

Praise for murdering tyrants is “diplomatic” and “fashionable” and statesman like.
Sep 19th, 2024 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Brasileiro
I don't think the United States is still a democracy. In fact, I think China is much more like a democracy than the United States.

After the Great Patriotic War, the United States became a bellicose, imperialist country. It provoked wars and coups d'état in every part of the world. It crushed and destroyed countries that did not follow its rules. It murdered millions of people. It protected bloodthirsty dictators, and it stole and squandered the natural heritage of half the world.

To this day, the United States maintains concentration camps where they torture, rape, and degrade human beings. Guantanamo is one example.

The United States is capable of anything to maintain its imperial status and to drive away other countries and companies that it sees as competitors.

The United States has long since ceased to be the rosy dream that you Westerners think it is.
Sep 20th, 2024 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse -2
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bushpilot
Living in China is a rosy dream. Everybody wants to live there.

Living in the United States is no dream. Nobody wants to live there.

People have long since ceased dreaming about living in the United States.

It has been a very, very long time since anybody tried to move to the United States.

Russia, and China, and Venezuela, and Iran, and Nicaragua, and North Korea do not have concentration camps where they torture and disappear people.

In Russia, and China, and Venezuela, and Iran, and Nicaragua, and North Korea people are allowed to speak freely against their government. They are not put in concentration camps for this.

That is why China is more democratic than the United States.
Sep 20th, 2024 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Pugol-H
‘Great Patriotic War’, eh!!!

Wasn’t in Brazil, was it!

Kremlin puppet.
Sep 20th, 2024 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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