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What’s behind China’s rise?
In addition to taking on a large part of the exports that were affected by Trump’s tariffs, they also invested in infrastructure in Brazil, such as a railway line to connect the ocean Pacific to Atlantic ocean
I imagine it stems from trade relations and economic growth resulting from them https://tvbrics.com/en/news/brazilian-jobs-tied-to-china-exports-rise-62/
brazilian here, the change on perception about china is hard to pinpoint, but i would guess it is because of technological advancement, chinese brands are very popular here for being cheap and high quality, xiaomi phones (like the one im using rn) are a fever and byd cars are very talked about, computers parts are also very popular, heck my pc is almost mostly chinese. for people hows interested, chinese internal tech also amazes, like turning desert into greenery, renewable energy, high speed train, massive works of infrastructure and so on.
secondary i would put being the adult in the room, while they are our biggest trading partner and shower the world with tech wonders, they also represent stability in such in a chaotic world, which gives almost no room to our mainstream media to demonize it, combined with trumps “diplomacy”, i.e, trying to destabilize the region and putting insane tariffs on everyone with equally insane internal politics like the ice raids, contributed greatly to the perception that usa is more authoritarian than china.
in third and almost no relevancy would be culture, i know that there is a blockade on it and in brazil specifically there is not many laws protecting local cinema, so 8 of 10 sessions are usian movies, chinese anime also isn’t very watched around, but there slowly they are piercing away that, last year black myth wukong was very successful and ne zha 2 just hit our theaters, perhaps we will see more chinese movies in the coming years.
as for the many many communists parties, most of then consider china capitalist and imperialist.
Thanks for the insights, it’s good to hear Chinese tech is making life better in Brazil and people are noticing. Makes sense that the US becoming increasingly unhinged makes people realize that maybe it’s not the country to hitch your wagon to going forward.
The perception of China being capitalist is the really difficult to combat unfortunately. My view is that it’s not really a point that’s worth investing a lot of energy into debating. There are two things I like to point out to people in that regard. First, regardless of what system China might have domestically, it’s clear that it plays a positive role in the world, and it does not try to impose its system on others. Second is that clearly China is doing something right in terms of improving the material conditions for its people, that should be studied and then aspects of the system that make sense should be adapted to local conditions. The reality is that whatever form socialism takes in a particular country will necessarily be rooted in its history, culture, and the existing material conditions. China shouldn’t be looked at a model to be franchised, but rather as a real world example to be studied.
