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The big thing nobody talks about with Bolsonaro though is the geopolitical implications with China. US and Brazil could starve China into compliance as they pro
by chadAnon69 8y ago
The big thing nobody talks about with Bolsonaro though is the geopolitical implications with China. US and Brazil could starve China into compliance as they produce around 80% of the worlds soy and corn. Nobody is talking about that aspect,the fact that brazil has non-socialist anti-China leader for the first time in decades, although Trump must be aware because he sent Bolton down to Brazil and invited Bolsonaro to the white house
It applies beyond China as well. They could just become OPEC for food and both countries would benefit from being able to jack up prices on crops and livestock.
- omegaworks 8y ago>US and Brazil could starve China into compliance Into compliance with what, exactly?
- baybal2 8y agoTrade blockade, and food in particular. Russian farmers will be happy, once in a blue moon.
- gdy 8y agoThey are not too unhappy even now. https://agfax.com/2018/10/12/global-markets-wheat-robust-russian-exports-in-spite-of-smaller-crop/ https://agfax.com/2018/10/12/global-markets-wheat-robust-rus...
- gdy 8y agoAmerican interests
- omegaworks 8y agoAnd those are?
- gdy 8y agoMoney, keeping China out Here's a snippet about Africa, I'm sure South America is much more important for the US. “We will make certain that ALL aid to the region - whether for security, humanitarian, or development needs - advances U.S. interests,” he said, adding that Washington will also re-evaluate its support for U.N. peacekeeping missions. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-africa/u-s-to-counter-china-russia-influence-in-africa-bolton-idUSKBN1OC1XV https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-africa/u-s-to-c...
- chadAnon69 8y agotrade, IP, muslim concentration camps, illegal island creation in south China sea, the list goes on. Xi's power grab is only accepted because life is pretty good right now in China. He won't be able to maintain power over a billion hungry, angry chinese
- zapita 8y agoI have a feeling that Muslim concentration camps is not on top of the list of issues that Trump or Bolsonaro are worried about...
- chadAnon69 8y agorealpolitik, anything Trump can use to turn the international community against China will be used
- Apocryphon 8y agoMaybe if MBS starts to care about Uyghurs?
- unmole 8y agoMBS doesn't care about Arabs in Yemen. Why would he start caring about Uyghurs half a continenet away?
- Apocryphon 8y agoSome of them form Salafist militias in Syria.
- ocschwar 8y agoImagine a timeline where both Brazil and the USA had human beings as presidents. That would probably get the Uyghurs rescued
- pvaldes 8y agoChina is fishing in all the planet and can exert a lot of influence over many countries in Africa. Chinese investors had spent more than $23 billion in Brazil in the last three years investing in energy and entering in the development of infrastructures. Would not be a wise move for the brazilian government.
- chadAnon69 8y agoBolsonaro's big quote is that "China isn't investing in Brazil, it's buying brazil". If Trump offers Bolsonaro a good trade deal I wouldn't be surprised to see him take it to get away from China's influence
- oh-kumudo 8y agoWell, Brazil had to sell those soybeans somewhere. Their economy is half bankrupt already anyway. If not China, where are going to send all the natural resources to, with its current price? Presumably not US, who is also desperate trying to sell its own gases/agricultural products to the world. They are competitors, not friends. In worst case, China can just reduce the consumption of livestock, after all that is what soybeans had been used for, while finding replacements somewhere else. As long as they have enough rice, China will be fine.
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