{"id":48165,"date":"2019-09-01T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48165"},"modified":"2019-09-01T07:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T12:36:55","slug":"brics-was-created-as-a-tool-of-attack-lula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48165","title":{"rendered":"BRICS was created as a tool of attack: Lula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.asiatimes.com\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Lula-and-Hu-Jintao-900x540.jpg\" alt=\"BRICS was created as a tool of attack: Lula\"\/><figcaption>Former Brazilian leader Lula holds hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, at the BRICS summit in Brasilia on April 15, 2010. Lula wishes his country had a strategic partnership with Beijing. Photo: Dida Sampaio \/Agencia Estado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiatimes.com\/2019\/08\/article\/brics-was-created-as-a-tool-of-attack-lula\/\">BRICS was created as a tool of attack: Lula<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies were closer, recalls Obama \u2018crashing\u2019 Copenhagen climate meet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the 24\/7 media frenzy of scripted sound bites and \u201cfake news\u201d, it\u2019s virtually impossible to find a present or former head of state anywhere, in a conversation with journalists, willing to speak deep from his soul, to comment on all current political developments and relish telling stories about the corridors of power. And all that while still in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiatimes.com\/2019\/08\/article\/lula-from-jail-tells-world-hes-back-in-the-game\/\">The first part<\/a>&nbsp;of this mini-series focused on the Amazon. Here, we will focus on Brazil\u2019s relationship with BRICS and Beijing.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BRICS\">BRICS<\/a>&nbsp;is the grouping of major emerging economies \u2013 Brazil, Russia, India and China \u2013 that formed in 2006 and then included South Africa in their annual meetings from 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first question to Lula was about BRICS and the current geopolitical chessboard, with the US facing a Russia-China strategic partnership. As president, from 2003 to 2010, Lula was instrumental in formatting and expanding the influence of BRICS \u2013 in sharp contrast with Brazil\u2019s current President, Jair Bolsonaro, who appears to be convinced that China is a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lula stressed that Brazil should have been getting closer to China in a mirror process of what occurred between Russia and China: \u201cWhen there was a BRICS summit here in Cear\u00e1 state in Brazil, I told comrade Dilma [Rousseff, the former president] that we should organize a pact like the Russia-China pact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRICS was created as a tool of attack: Lula Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies were closer, recalls Obama \u2018crashing\u2019 Copenhagen climate meet In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1860,26658,694,827],"class_list":["post-48165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-brics","tag-luis-lula","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48167,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48165\/revisions\/48167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}