Haddad continues to please the Financial Times, not so much China – 01/19/2023 – Nelson de Sá

Minister Fernando Haddad appeared Thursday on the home page of the Financial Times, in an interview with the newspaper’s editor, Roula Khalaf, and the international news editor, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany.

Days before, the vehicle had already highlighted its “ambitious program” of fiscal adjustment. Now it has led to the call that Lula, says the minister, will “recalibrate the pace of reforms”.

According to the FT, if on the one hand the Brazilian government can postpone some changes, due to Bolsonarist attacks, it would also bring others to the front of the queue, “including the revision of the tax system”.

Haddad says that the attacks show that “the opposition to Lula will be made up of extremists”, hence the need for “careful implementation, especially at the beginning, to avoid being the target of fake news and riots”.

On the other hand, newspapers like Huanqiu, original in Chinese by the Global Times, from Beijing, echo another conversation between Haddad and journalists in Davos, in which he dealt with the Brics.

The minister said that the government had asked the other members to postpone the rotating presidency of the group by Brazil, from 2024 to 2025, so as not to coincide with its presidency of the G20.

The Russian news agency Tass heard from the South African government, in the presidency of this year, that “the decision will be taken by consensus”. And Chinese media have heard from the foreign ministry that the five are in “close communication on the issue”.

‘XI ALSO’

Asked in an interview with GloboNews channel about the trip to the US in February, to meet Joe Biden, Lula added at the end of his answer: “Then, in March, I’m going to China, I’m going to talk to President Xi Jinping too”.

Before that, next week, he is going to Buenos Aires for the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). The country’s return to the organization received attention in the Argentine and Chinese media.

In this, portal 163 (NetEase) published the analysis “Brazil returns to Celac – ‘Backyard’ of the USA is really changing, and the multipolar situation is unstoppable”. With Lula, again, the region “resists the Monroe Doctrine”.

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