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The New Trade Routes: Brazil & China

Inside this issue

• Private companies are trying to improve the system

• Vale’s new chief will have to steer a difficult course

• Hong Kong-based ZTE says manufacturing locally makes sense - -

Content

Drawn into an ever closer embrace

To a large extent, it is a relationship of opposites, fraught with challenges and misunderstandings, writes Joe Leahy

Infrastructure: Poor logistics present a problem for partnership

Private companies are trying to improve the transport system, says Samantha Pearson

Profile: Vale must keep government onside

The new chief will have to steer a difficult course, says Samantha Pearson

Financial flows: Commodities are central to defining the relationship

Ties between the two are only going to strengthen, says Joe Leahy

Manufacturing at risk from global shift to Asia

The pressure from a rising China is bound to become more ferocious, writes Martin Wolf

CDB: Lender with a global reach

Jamil Anderlini on the bank’s role in the drive overseas

ZTE: Telecoms manufacturer makes move to Latin America

The HK-listed group finds it makes sense to have a local factory, writes Kathrin Hille

Guest column: Material demand shaped economy of regional giant

None of Brazil’s economic transformation of the past decade or so would have been possible without the rise of China, writes Richard Lapper

Sport: Olympics and World Cup require a robust approach

There are lessons to be learnt from Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Games, reports Jamil Anderlini

Brazil’s Embraer weathers unexpected turbulence

Joe Leahy looks at the difficulties faced by the aircraft manufacturer in getting approval for production of its regional jets in China

Interest rates: A strong currency is government’s best friend

Commodities: Possible U-turn over price controls

US relations: Scramble for oil in its old backyard

Commodities: Renminbi revaluation cannot solve nation’s woes

Food exports: Appetite for meat grows in Asia

Royal wedding: Knock-off rings and posh frocks fill the shelves

Textiles: Carnival – celebrated in Brazil but made in China