Brazil’s Rousseff meets Chinese vice premier Wang

AFP/The West, 02/13/2012

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President Dilma Rousseff held wide-ranging talks Monday with visiting Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan, whose country is Brazil’s most important trading partner.

Wang is to attend a meeting of a high-level bilateral commission that tackles political, economic, trade, financial and industrial issues confronting the two emerging powers.

In 2009, China became Brazil’s largest trading partner, overtaking the United States, and is now also the largest investor in the South American nation.

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Vice-Premier leaves for China-Brazil meeting

Xinhua/China Daily, 02/09/2012

BEIJING – Vice-Premier Wang Qishan left Beijing on Friday to co-host a bilateral high-level meeting, according to a press release from the Foreign Ministry.

Wang and Brazilian Vice-President Michel Temer will co-host the second meeting of the China-Brazil High-level Coordination and Cooperation Committee, the ministry said.

The first session of the China-Brazil High-level Coordination and Cooperation Committee was held in Beijing in March 2006.

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