With a festive title, “Hallelula”, mixing Aleluia and Lula, the Economist does not hide its relief: “it is a triumph for Brazilian democracy, Lula won fairly.” And it once again demands a minister of the economy with “support in the market”.
In the little headline on the cover, “What will Lula do?”. It focuses on what it can do, from economics to global relations. “Now is the hard part,” he emphasizes, suggesting that the Amazon, for example, “turn to external allies for help.”
He believes that “Lula will re-establish friendly relations with countries like France and the United States”, but avoid mentioning China.
SQUID & LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, CHINA
Foreign Policy also asks, in the headline, “What is Lula’s foreign policy?”. In a second highlight, more asks: “How will Lula navigate a changed world?”.
To answer, he uses an extensive interview by former Chancellor Celso Amorim to Nueva Sociedad, the Argentine magazine of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, linked to German social democracy. He defends Latin America’s “joint action” to guarantee independence, and Europe’s importance to the “multipolar game”, detailing the eventual trade agreement.
It also explains Lula’s criticism of Chinese products “taking over”, made at Fiesp: “it’s not the Chinese’s fault, it’s ours, for not having developed an industrial policy”. But “the Chinese will have to progressively understand that trade is not enough”, that it is necessary to “contribute to the technological development of the partners”.
From the USA, he barely spoke.
SQUID & UNITED STATES
The new relationship between “the two giants of the Americas” is the focus of an analysis in Bloomberg and the Washington Post by retired Admiral James Stavridis, who headed US Southern Command and is now a military analyst at NBC.
He describes several meetings with Lula, saying he was “impressed by his political instincts, an ability to find a balance between the left and more conservative nations”. He believes that “it will position itself as a leader in the Global South”, making efforts “in connections with India, China, Nigeria, Indonesia, South Africa”.
Specifically “on the security stage, it will seek balanced positions”, for example, between Russia and Ukraine. “Expect Lula to encourage stronger relations with China”, but also “expect good cooperation in the fight against drugs, in fisheries inspection and in training between the Brazilian military and the Fourth Fleet”.
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