Lula cancels China trip due to "mild pneumonia"
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A "mild pneumonia" with timing so opportune as to bring to mind those famous ones of Leonid Brezhnev's good soul, that of Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who, from March 26 to 31 was to make a trip announced months ago to China to reposition the samba country on the international stage. It was to be Brazil's largest-ever delegation abroad since the return of democracy, with a contingent worthy of the Potemkin Battleship, with more than 120 businessmen, a host of ministers, 39 deputies and senators, union leaders close to the PT, Lula's Workers' Party, as well as the heads of the leading Brazilian associations. The goal, in addition to the already stated purpose of involving the Chinese in Brazil's "peace plan" to end the war between Russia and Ukraine as soon as possible, was to sign the "Belt & Road Initiative," China's Silk Road with which Beijing has already bought half of Argentina and open the doors of the Brazilian 6G to Huawei. Instead, everything skipped, officially because of a "mild pneumonia" that, however, on Friday afternoon had not prevented Lula, at 3 p.m. in Brasilia, from holding an extraordinary meeting of his council of ministers since foreign repositioning aside on the domestic front things could not get worse for his executive and, of the famous "honeymoon" of the first 100 days of government, which will be celebrated on April 10, there is no sign this time.