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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is scheduled to pay a state visit to China from April 12 to 15. Both China and Brazil are significant emerging market economies and significant developing nations of BRICS.
Honduras has officially terminated diplomatic relations with Taipei and embraced Beijing instead. Given China’s positioning in Latin America, this is not an isolated event.
Brazil's president-elect, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, has professedadmiration for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. Bush's agendafor his upcoming meeting with Lula should focus on Brazil'spotential support for regional non-democratic regimes, its neededparticipation in counterterrorism and counterdrug operations, andmutual efforts to lower barriers to trade.