Lula da Silva Trip to Russia, China Sends Message: “We Are No One’s Backyard”

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will chair the BRICS summit on July 6-7 in Rio de Janeiro, just visited Moscow (May 8-10) and then Beijing (May 12-14), for substantive discussions on both global and bilateral issues before that summit. At every opportunity, he argued that unilate