President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes up the international travel schedule this week. The first commitment will be in Moscow, Russia. At the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, Lula will participate in the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. It is Russia’s most important holiday, which takes place on May 9, with a grand civic-military parade in Moscow. Both presidents will also maintain bilateral meeting during the visit, between May 8 and 10.
Following, Lula goes to China, where he will fulfill schedules on May 12 and 13. Lula’s visit to the Asian country will take place in the context of the summit between China and countries of the community of Latin American and Caribbean states (Celac).
The expected bilateral meeting between Lula and Xi Jinping will take place amid the intensification of the commercial war between the United States and China, the two largest economies on the planet. The imposition of mutual tariffs, triggered at the initiative of US President Donald Trump, has been causing successive turmoil in action markets and fears the fear of a global recession.
The trip to China will be Lula’s second official visit in this third term. The previous visit took place in April 2023, which was returned by Xi Jinping on a state visit in November last year, after the G20 summit, based by Brazil. In addition, they had met again in 2023 at the Brics summit in South Africa.
