China News Service: Can you share with us the details, outcomes and highlights of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Brazil? What’s China’s expectations for the future growth of China-Brazil relations?
Lin Jian: President Xi Jinping just wrapped up his state visit to Brazil. During the visit, the two presidents jointly announced to elevate China-Brazil ties to a China-Brazil community with a shared future for a more just world and a more sustainable planet, and to promote synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and Brazil’s development strategies.
President Xi Jinping and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took stock of the past 50 years of China-Brazil relations, and agreed that the relationship is at its best period in history, is growing stronger in global, strategic and long-term significance, and has become an exemplar of common progress, solidarity and cooperation between major developing countries. Elevating the bilateral ties and synergizing the two countries’ development strategies will certainly enable the two countries to carry forward the past achievements in the relations and usher in the next “golden 50 years”, as well as to set an example for Global South nations to seek strength through unity and make new contributions to increasing the representation and voice of developing countries in global governance. President Xi also pointed out that next year marks the 10th anniversary of the official launch of the China-CELAC Forum. China stands ready to join hands with Brazil and other Latin American countries to take China-Latin American cooperation to new heights.
The two presidents signed the Joint Statement Between the People’s Republic of China and the Federative Republic of Brazil on Jointly Building the China-Brazil Community with a Shared Future for a More Just World and a More Sustainable Planet, and jointly witnessed the signing of the Plan of Cooperation Between the People’s Republic of China and the Federative Republic of Brazil on Synergizing the Belt and Road Initiative with the Growth Acceleration Program, the New Industry Brazil, the Ecological Transformation Plan, and the Program on South American Integration Routes. The two sides also signed bilateral cooperation documents during the visit.
The King of football Pelé once said “The most beautiful goal is always the next one.” Likewise, the most wonderful chapter of China-Brazil relations is yet to come. Keeping in mind the future of humanity and the well-being of the people, China is ready to work with Brazil to continually enrich the content of China-Brazil relations in the new era, safeguard true multilateralism, send a strong message of the new era that we choose development over poverty, cooperation over confrontation and justice over hegemony, and join hands to make the world a better place.
RIA Novosti: A senior representative of the US Strategic Command Thomas Buchanan said earlier today the US does not want a nuclear war, but if an exchange of nuclear strikes occurs, Washington wants to keep some of its arsenal to deter its potential adversaries in the future. I wonder what’s China’s comment on this?
Lin Jian: What the US official said shows the US’s outdated mindset of seeking hegemony and absolute strategic advantage. In recent years, the US has kept upgrading its nuclear triad, increasing the role of nuclear weapons in national security policies, strengthening nuclear sharing and extended deterrence with its allies, and promoting forward deployment of medium-range missiles and anti-missile systems. These moves seriously disturb global strategic balance and stability, intensify military competition and confrontation, and increase nuclear risks.
The US should earnestly fulfill its special and primary responsibility for nuclear disarmament, further make drastic and substantive cuts to its nuclear arsenal, create conditions for the ultimate realization of complete and thorough nuclear disarmament, and contribute to reducing strategic risks and upholding regional peace and stability.
