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"Brazilian media had a repugnant stance in covering Lula's trip to China," says José Reinaldo Carvalho.

"It was a festival of sycophancy, of subservience. And all of that mixed with great ignorance," stated the editor of the International section of Brasil 247.

Xi Jinping and Lula (Photo: Presidency of the Republic)

247 - The journalist José Reinaldo Carvalho, International editor of Brazil 247He called the corporate press coverage of President Lula's (PT) trip to China "repugnant."

According to him, the Brazilian media once again showed itself subservient to the United States by attacking Lula for criticizing the hegemony of the dollar and for supposedly challenging the Americans by getting closer to the Chinese."The coverage given to it is truly repugnant. The tone was, 'look, be careful not to offend the United States; look, it's fine to praise our main trading partner, it's part of diplomacy and national interests, but There was no need to attack the dollar.There was no need to say that he was going to abandon the dollar; why bother? It was at Huawei."Did he put on those glasses?" 

"Frankly, it was a festival of sycophancy and subservience. And all of this mixed with a great ignorance about the real intentions and actions of the Brazilian government," Carvalho concluded.