China is weaving ever closer links with "the other half of the sky", that community of emerging countries which now cover more than half of the world's GDP. Chinese President Xi Jinping, fresh from the work of the sixth BRICS countries summit, expressed, in a speech addressed to the National Congress, the Chinese government's intention to make relations between his own country and the host country closer and more fruitful.
Brazil is the first stop in a series of official visits that will take Xi to Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba. In his speech, the president stressed that Brazil and China both need to find new impetus for economic development through three magic words : reforms, restructuring and innovation. Going into more detail, Xi hoped that the governments of the two states could give an acceleration that will quickly lead to the completion of the planned ten-year cooperation plan between China and Brazil.
He also underlined the importance of better political-diplomatic coordination, in order to be able to make one's voice heard more effectively in favor of the rights and needs of developing countries. But, speaking in Brazil, Xi was addressing the speech to a much wider audience, his words were in fact directed to a large part of that Latin America with which China wants to intensify relations and exchanges.
In this regard, the Chinese president recalled the long history of friendship which has linked China to many South American countries, relations which have known a particular impulse since 2000. All this to arrive at the meeting with Xi's first and most important interlocutor, i.e. the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), with which China has created, since last year, a Forum, a privileged space for dialogue and conception of joint projects in the political, commercial, financial and scientific-technological fields.
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