Brazil’s Lula to meet China’s Xi on March 28 in Beijing

Brazil’s new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on March 28 on Lula’s first trip of his current term to his country’s largest trading partner, official sources told Reuters.
Lula, who visited China twice during his earlier government 2003-2010, will stay in Beijing for four days for talks on trade, investments and the war in Ukraine.
The leftist president, who visited U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House last week, has a difficult task of balancing relations with Brazil’s main trade and investment partners at a time of growing conflict between the two superpowers.
Lula, who has defended Brazil’s neutrality in the war between Ukraine and Russia, said he will discuss the conflict with Xi to advance his proposal of engaging other nations in a diplomatic effort to reach a negotiated peace.