attended the inauguration of the new bank in shanghai on thursday. the new development bank is set up by the brics group, and president lawler said the new financial institute freeze developing countries from establishment. a business reporterjoao da silva has more on the significance of this trip. the goal, in his own words, is to strengthen the relationship and at least when it comes to business ties already significant, china s brazil s biggest export market, each year buying tens of billions of dollars worth of natural resources and agricultural products, including soybeans, iron ore, oil, and beef. while brazil, according to chinese state media, is the biggest recipient of chinese investment in latin america. president lula da silva is more of it if he is to boost result s stagnant economy, that is why the brazilian government expects more than 20 bilateral agreements to be signed during his trip was not as part of the deeper ties, they have already agreed to allow busin
surged 10% last year to $150 billlion. they have moved to reduce reliance on the us dollar by setting up payment clearing in the chinese currency, the yuan. former brazilian president dilma rousseff is to be sworn in today as head of the new development bank a rival to the world bank and imf set by by the so called brics countries of brazil, russia, india, china and south africa. let s speak now to william jackson, who is emerging market economist at capital economics. xi has been signalling the post covid reopening of china by hosting a series of world leaders. what can we read into the fact that brazil s leader has been among the first? you are absolutely right. as china moves into its postcode environment it seems to be wanting to spread its international wings. we have seen talks between saudi arabia and iran recently, and now we have cordial words with president lula, hayes and china at the moment. there is a big political angle to this, to find a way to cement relatio
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