China, Brazil issue joint statement on China-Brazil community with a shared future and multilateralism

China and Brazil on Tuesday issued a joint statement on strengthening the building of a China-Brazil community with a shared future for a more just world, a more sustainable planet and jointly upholding multilateralism.

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva paid a state visit to China from May 10 to 14 and attended the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC (the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Forum in Beijing.

In the statement, both sides agreed to continue expanding and deepening practical cooperation, firmly advancing the alignment of their development strategies, jointly promoting the modernization of both countries and fostering regional connectivity and sustainable development.

They agreed to deepen scientific and technological innovation cooperation in areas such as aerospace, energy transition, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, bio-economy, and food security to jointly address global challenges.

Both sides expressed their willingness to enhance mutual learning among civilizations, further promote cultural exchanges, and increase mutual understanding between the two peoples. The two heads of state reaffirmed their intention to designate 2026 as the China-Brazil Year of Culture to further strengthen people-to-people ties.

Additionally, the two countries agreed to enhance cooperation within international organizations and multilateral mechanisms and to firmly uphold an international order centered on the United Nations and based on international law and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.

They pledged to uphold multilateralism, defend international fairness and justice, oppose unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism, work toward a more just and reasonable international order and system, and promote a multipolar world.

Both sides supported reforms of the UN and its Security Council to make it more democratic, representative, effective, and efficient and enhance the representation of developing countries, enabling the global system to better address current challenges.

To address the current global economic and trade turbulence, both sides emphasized that tariff wars and trade wars have no winners and that protectionism should not be a response to today's challenges. Both countries committed to fostering an open and non-discriminatory international environment for cooperation and advancing inclusive and mutually beneficial economic globalization.

On the Gaza crisis, both sides expressed support for the Early Recovery, Reconstruction, and Development of Gaza plan proposed and adopted by Arab nations on March 4 this year and called on the international community to promote the sustained and effective implementation of a ceasefire agreement and to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The two sides also reaffirmed strong support for the two-state solution, advocating the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, encompassing the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.