China.org.cn:

The current financial crisis originated in the U.S. but it has rapidly spread around the world and has affected Brazil and China. President Lula has declared that this is an opportunity to develop the ties between the two countries. So, what kind of opportunity is this? And, in which areas both countries push forward the trading links?

Hugueney:

We think that a bigger cooperation between our nations can help both countries to keep growing. The financial crisis affects everybody, but it affects mostly poorer countries, developing countries and the poor in these countries. Both governments have major responsibilities toward these persons I think that if we cooperate more, if we increase our economic relationship, if we promote trade and investment between Brazil and China, if we cooperate more in the scientific-technological area, we will be making a contribution toward maintaining the growth in both nations; and we will also be contributing to the world economy.

On the other hand, we do feel that our growing cooperation in supplying answers to the crisis, in coordinating these answers, in developing our thinking about how the world monetary financial system should change. We think that we should promote multilateralism and the idea of a multipolar world. This is a vision that Brazil and China share, and I think we can work together to make this a reality in the context of the G20, the reform of the U.N., and in other areas.