Lula Says Brazil, China Can Change World Governance Together

  • Brazilian leader met with Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday
  • Brazil’s interests in China not only economic, Lula says
Xi Jinping and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shake hands after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 14.Photographer: Ken Ishii/AFP/Getty Images
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Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended stronger ties with Beijing in order to reorient the global geopolitical order, possibly boosting Chinese plans to counter decades of US preeminence in world affairs.

“Our interests in the relationship with China are not just commercial,” Lula said during a meeting with Zhao Leji, the chairman of China’s National Peoples Congress standing committee, in Beijing on Friday. “We have political interests and we have interests in building a new geopolitics so that we can change world governance by giving more representation to the United Nations.”