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Brazil was already the world’s second largest producer of soya and a major agricultural power, among the world’s top producers of beef, chicken, pork, coffee and sugar. Since the 1970s the Embrapa government research institute had been developing new agricultural techniques that had allowed Brazil to expand the cultivation of many crops away from t

Over the last twenty years China has become the biggest export market for Chilean and Peruvian copper, for example. Oil exporters such as Venezuela and Ecuador sold to China. China’s demand sucked in Argentinian soya and wheat. But Brazil was transformed by its new trade relationship with Beijing. As we saw in Chapter 3, China provided a huge marke

Brazil is also at the forefront of internet regulation globally. It’s one of the few countries that was quick to grasp the risks of social media and swiftly move to regulation.