China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Beijing on Tuesday.
Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, said China is willing to strengthen strategic collaboration with Brazil and continuously enrich the content of the China-Brazil community with a shared future.
The NPC is willing to work with the Brazilian Congress to implement the important consensus reached between the two countries' heads of state, step up exchanges in legislative and supervisory experience, and provide a legal guarantee for the pragmatic cooperation between the two countries, Zhao said.
Noting the importance of exchanges between legislative bodies, Lula said Brazil is willing to work with China to enhance exchanges of governance experience, uphold multilateralism and free trade, oppose protectionism, address climate change, and advance the building of a community with shared future between the two countries.
Lula said the close exchanges between legislative bodies are very important for enhancing Brazil-China friendship, adding that Brazil is willing to strengthen exchanges of governance experience with China, safeguard multilateralism and free trade, reject protectionism, jointly address climate change, and promote the building of a Brazil-China community with a shared future.
China's top legislator meets Brazilian president
China and Canada are complementary in their resources and the two countries can tap the full potential of their win-win cooperation for their good, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said in Beijing.
He made the remarks during an exclusive interview with China Media Group (CMG) ahead of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to China.
Carney will pay an official visit to China from January 14 to 17, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.
"I hope that the visit of the prime minister of Canada, it will be a new departure in the relation between Canada and China. And because of the turmoil created by the president of the United States, we are looking for diversifying our economy with other nations. And my judgment always said that China and Canada are complementary. You have the people, we have the land, we have the resources, and we have some people, too. So, we can help each other to grow in peace and prosperity," he said.
Regarding how to resolve differences, Chretien said dialog is always the best way out.
"I believe in dialog. If we have disagreement, we have to talk about it. But at the end, every nation is a sovereign nation. So, we have to respect that, too. It's internal decision by the people of China to decide the future of China like it is for the Canadians to decide the future of Canada," he said.
China, Canada should leverage complementarity for mutual benefit: former Canadian PM
