BRICS: Increasing cooperation between Brazil and China

Brasil logo for July 2025 BRICS conference

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Sputnik reported the following related to Brazil and China in the BRICS+ alliance:

BRICS Forges New Era of Deeper Brazil-China Cooperation – Expert

10 May 2026

Brazil and China found in BRICS a strategic environment that reduced political mistrust and expanded opportunities for long-term collaboration, China-Brazil specialist Evandro Menezes de Carvalho tells Sputnik.

The countries share concerns about reforming global financial institutions, greater representation of the Global South, development financing, and respect for national development paths.

The New Development Bank is the clearest example: emerging economies creating their own mechanisms to finance infrastructure without depending on Western-led institutions

BRICS reinforced that development and has no single universal model — diversity in political systems and economic strategies is seen as a source of new approaches, not an obstacle

The bloc accelerated the shift toward a more multipolar world, where Global South nations gain greater autonomy, voice, and new forms of cooperation

China’s growing engagement with Brazil isn’t just about trade or investment. It’s about new institutional architectures and South-South cooperation — with BRICS at the center, the expert concludes. https://sputnikglobe.com/20260510/brics-forges-new-era-of-deeper-brazil-china-cooperation—expert-1124107832.html

Yes, Brazil, China, and the rest of the BRICS+ nations want to counter the Anglo-American and European dominated worlds. The “B” in BRICS stands for Brazil.

Although US President Donald Trump had positive word’s to say about Brazil’s President Lula de Silva after meeting with him a few days ago, he stated that Brazil would not limit its rare earth minerals to the West:

08 May 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told US President Donald Trump on Thursday that his country’s rare earth reserves are open to investment from China and any other nation willing to process the minerals on Brazilian soil, resisting pressure to side with Washington in its contest with Beijing over critical mineral supply chains.

“We have no preference. What we want is to share with whoever wants to invest in Brazil,” Lula said at a press conference at the Brazilian embassy in Washington after a three-hour meeting with Trump that ran more than an hour past schedule.

“Americans, Chinese, Germans, Japanese, French, whoever wants to participate with us to help us mine, separate and produce the wealth that these rare earths offer us, they are invited.”

Lula said he told Trump that Brazil had approved a new regulatory framework for critical minerals in Congress on the eve of the visit and was treating the sector as a matter of national sovereignty. …

Brazil holds the world’s second-largest reserves of rare earths and graphite and is the third-largest holder of nickel. The 17 rare earth elements are used in products from electric vehicle motors and wind turbines to fighter jet engines and missile guidance systems. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3352824/lula-wont-sideline-china-or-anyone-rare-earths-tells-trump-refining-stays-brazil

Brazil is basically telling the USA that it will decide how to handle matters such as rare earth elements.

Notice something from my January 2025 free eBook Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency:

Donald Trump’s tariff and other economic policies are getting the Gentile nations of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia to look to trade more with each other. An unintended consequence of his rhetoric and policies is that they are encouraging the end-time rise of the final time of the Gentiles. …

Notice what Donald Trump stated in late 2024:

The idea that the BRICS countries are trying to move away from the dollar while we stand by and watch is over,” Trump wrote in a Nov. 30 Truth Social post. …

“We require a commitment from these countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty U.S. dollar or, they will face 100 percent tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. economy,” the president-elect recently wrote.

In October, speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago with Bloomberg, Trump warned … “We have to have that. We cannot lose it,” Trump said. “You’ll go to Third World status in this country because you take a look at the way things are running.” (Durden T. De-Dollarization Effort In Spotlight After Trump’s Tariff Threat On BRICS. ZeroHedge, December 3, 2024)

Yes, the impact of the USA dollar losing its reserve status would be horrible–and even worse than Donald Trump asserted. And things like 100% tariffs are inflationary.

The BRICS+ nations, which compose nearly half the population of the world, still want to bypass the US dollar.

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened 100 percent tariffs on BRICS nations if they replace the dollar in international trade.

However, Brazil has indicated that it aims to boost the effort during its presidency of BRICS. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government has said its objective is the “development of means of payment” to facilitate trade between member countries.[i]

Furthermore, some suspect that more countries in BRICS+ may destroy the ‘petrodollar’ system that supports the dollar.[ii]

The USA dollar will ultimately crash and be worthless. That “pride” of American power will be broken (cf. Leviticus 26:19). …

European leaders have been working for years to establish a new reserve currency for the world, partially with the intent to remove the USA dollar from its current position as a reserve currency.

Those in Russia, Iran and some of the Arab lands, along with nations such as Brazil and India have discussed plans for the removal of the dominance of the USA dollar in global trade as well. Many are now working on that, along with China, in what is called the BRICS alliance.[iii] While Donald Trump did not cause all of this, an unintended consequence of the use of sanctions in the Trump-Pence Administration (as well as by the Biden-Harris Administration) is that more nations are looking to bypass the dollar.

[i] Indonesia joins BRICS group of emerging economies. Aljazeera, January 7, 2025

[ii] Dourian K. Are the BRICS gearing up to challenge the petrodollar? Middle East Economy, October 10, 2024

[i] BRICS Expansion, the G20, and the Future of World Order. Carnegie Endowment for the International Peace, October 9, 2024

Notice also something from my free eBook Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America?:

Many have complained about the U.S.A. “weaponizing” its dollar through sanctions, bank restrictions, and other means.[i] By doing so, the U.S.A. has inadvertently been  building up a coalition to push aside the dollar—and this will happen when the timing is considered to be better. European leaders have been working for years to establish a new reserve currency for the world, partially with the intent to remove the U.S. dollar from its position as the world’s primary reserve currency. The fact that Europe would develop its own currency, as well as for that purpose, was predicted by Church of God writers no later than 1971[ii] –which is over two decades before the euro was officially agreed to.

Those in Iran and some of the Arab lands, along with nations such as Brazil, China, and India have discussed plans for the removal of the dominance of the U.S.A. in global trade as well. The former (again current) President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, even claimed that eliminating the U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status was one of the reasons that the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) was formed in the first place. [iii] Others have noted that bypassing the USA dollar is still an object of BRICS—and officially BRICS nations “are currently working on setting up a new global reserve currency,”[iv] which may have gold-backing.[v]

[i]  Jayakumar V. The weaponization of finance threatens the future of the dollar standard. The Hill, March 1, 2022; Hayes A. What Is Dollar Weaponization and How Has It Sped Up De-Dollarization? Investopedia, July 7, 2025

[ii] Hogberg G. Rising World Colossus. Plain Truth magazine, May 1971

[iii] Escobar P. BRICS was created as a tool of attack: Lula. Asia Times, August 28, 2019

[iv] BRICS developing new global reserve currency – Putin. RT, June 22, 2022

[v] Helms K. Economists Discuss Russia, China Potentially Developing Gold-Backed Currency. BRICS Information Portal, November 11, 2022

While Brazil will cooperate with the USA on certain matters, the BRICS group has long worked to bypass the USA dollar. USA sanctions, tariffs, and other policies have pushed more and more nations away from cooperating with the USA and more towards cooperating with each other.

Although BRICS will not dominate the world economically like the coming European Beast power will, the BRICS nations and their actions will have major impacts on the world.

Related to BRICS and the USA dollar, we put together the following video:

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BRICS Push Aside USA Dollar

The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have as one of their founding goals, to eliminate the need to use USA dollars in cross-border trade. Six additional nations have been invited to join BRICS in 2024, and India reports that six more are also being looked at. The BRICS nations have already began to drop the USA dollar for some cross-border trading with Russia and China indicating that they had almost done so completely in late 2023. What will happen to the economy and value of the USA dollar if more and more nations stop using it as a primary reserve and trading currency? What about hyperinflation? Does the Bible prophesy destruction for a highly indented nation in the end time? Is the USA the most indebted nation of all time? What about the intent and use of the Euro? Will Europe and Asia cooperate to eliminate the USA and its British-descended allies?

Here is a link to our video: BRICS Push Aside USA Dollar.

A lot is happening.

Do not think that the BRICS+ alliance will not ultimately work with more nations in the Global South, as well as even Europe, to work to push aside the Anglo-American world order.

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