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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

‘Brazil is back’: Lula to visit Xi as he resets diplomatic relations with China

Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is presented with the credentials of China’s ambassador to Brazil Zhu Qingqiao.
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is presented with the credentials of China’s ambassador to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao. Photograph: Sérgio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

One of them wants the world to know his country is battling its way back to its former glory after three years of zero-Covid lockdowns and a long and humiliating history of foreign exploitation.

The other wants to signal his country is bouncing back from four chaotic years under a far-right populist who took a sledgehammer to its place in the world.

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