Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 14, 2023.
Photographer: Ken Ishii/AFP/Getty Images
The Big Take
Lula’s Embrace of Xi Sets Up a Clash Over Trump’s China Policy
The Brazilian president is looking to Beijing to help his country’s economic development. It’s a strategy that risks a run-in with Trump.
In Brazil’s westernmost state of Acre, a gleaming new section of highway is being built to carry President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s hopes of economic transformation.
It also risks bearing the full weight of Donald Trump’s protectionist policies.