Says an old proverb that comes from India: when two elephants fight, the grass suffers.
The two biggest elephants in the world, the United States and China, are fighting. And the fight is getting worse.
Complicated, very complicated for us Brazilians, who have the United States and China as our most important partners. And not just commercials.
The fight between the two already put Brazil in this difficult situation. Then came the war in Ukraine, which changed the world in ways no one, a year ago, could have anticipated.
Basically, what is gone and belongs to the past is the world of peace dividends, from the end of the cold war, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The world has now taken on the dangerous outline of two opposing blocs in hot war. One is that of autocracies and closed regimes, such as China and Russia. The other is that of liberal democracies and open regimes, in Europe and Asia, led by the United States. It was there that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) traveled today, and the next trip should be to China.
What has changed for us is the fact that there is no more room to be on the fence. Conflict is at its core geopolitical, but values ​​are also part of geopolitics.
In other words, those who defend democracy and human rights are on one side against the other.
What is Brazil’s role and place in the world is not a topic that our society has widely discussed. It is being imposed on us from the outside in.
Source: CNN Brasil
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