Brazil, with its vast ability to ensure global food security and abundance of water resources, is consolidating itself as a strategic territory and coveted by large global powers, China and the United States. The analysis is by historian Leonardo Trevisan, professor of international relations at ESPM, who points to a more complex geopolitical dynamic than imagined.
According to Trevisan, the view that Brazil is coveted only on the one hand, such as Americans interested in political influence, is incomplete. “We will be coveted because we have 13% of the reserve aquifera in the world,” said the professor during participation in the ‘WW Special’ program, by CNNwhich discussed the hypothesis of the Brazil resort to nuclear technology for its defense system in the face of world tensions.
He points out that the country has the greatest potential to ensure world food security, a crucial factor that attracts the attention of powers. “This territory here, not only Latin America, but especially Brazil, has two covetousness. Soy, for example, is a key product that demands a lot of water and allows the transformation of vegetable protein into animal, something that the whole world will seek,” Trevisan added.
A, is a central point of Trevisan’s analysis. “We are looking at this without realizing the arrival on the other side because China is entering Brazil, he said.
According to the teacher, the Chinese investments in the country had a significant increase of 113% between 2023 and 2024. Trevisan highlights A, a $ 4 billion project that could receive oil tankers “that the port of Santos fail.”
“Chancay is a pole of attraction, but Chancay is not just in Peru, is here in Brazil. We have five routes built to reach Chancay inside Brazil with the bioceanic railways, all with Chinese capital,” said the professor.
Given this scenario, Trevisan questions the perception that Brazil will not be a territory of geopolitical dispute. “Will we not be a much larger geopolitical dispute territory than we are imagining?” He asked.
It sets the approaches from both powers apart: “If the United States want to change political rule, China wants to put us more and more in concrete dependence,” he explained.
Brazil, according to the expert, is seen on the international scenario as a “large farm”, a reality that China and the United States have on their targets.
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