1. ‘I will sell to someone else’: Brazil’s Lula hits back at US after China beef win
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thanked China for clearing the country’s beef of foot-and-mouth disease and fired a barb at US President Donald Trump, saying “I will sell to someone else”, after Washington announced new tariffs on Brazilian goods.
2. ‘Venezuela is our home’: Chinese Venezuelans rally after earthquakes
For generations, Chinese migrants have built businesses in Venezuela. After the country’s deadliest earthquake in decades – which occurred in late June and killed nearly 1,500 people, injured more than 3,100 and displaced over 12,700 – they responded not as outsiders but as Venezuelans.
3. EU pitches Brazil a ‘more beneficial’ rare earths deal than US or China
The EU offered Brazil a “more beneficial” partnership on critical minerals than the United States or China, promising investment in domestic refining and technology as Brussels worked to cut its dependence on Chinese supply chains.
