Lula Says He Doesn’t Want to Choose China or US in Trade Fight

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has no desire to choose between the US and China as an escalating trade fight between the planet’s two largest economies pushes nations like his own to pick a side.

“I don’t want a cold war. I don’t want to choose between the United States and China,” Lula said during an event alongside Chilean President Gabriel Boric in Brasilia on Tuesday. “I want to have a relationship with both. I don’t want to have a preference for one over the other. I want to trade with everyone.”

US President Donald Trump’s trade war ...