The usurious financial centers and their instruments, such as the government of the United States these days, are most unhappy that “Brazil is back,” as Inácio Lula da Silva has asserted from Day One of his third term as President.
Saturday’s petulant “news” article in the April 15 Financial Times typified the Anglo-American warnings issued after President Lula’s trip to China concluded—that Brazil can no longer be counted on to follow their rules. The City of London rag singled out four assertions of Brazilian sovereignty, made by President Lula while in China, as dangerous to their “rules-based order.”
First, Lula’s statement that together with China, Brazil seeks to “balance world geopolitics”: “We want to raise the level of the strategic partnership between our countries, expand trade flows and, together with China, balance world geopolitics,” the Brazilian President told Zhao Leji, President of China’s National People’s Congress, when they met April 14. Lula specified that Brazil, like China, wants to “change world governance by giving more representation to the United Nations.”
Naturally, Lula’s questioning of any need for dollar hegemony was also cited by the FT.
