Heavy meddle: Trump and Brazil
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🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump’s animus towards his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is best seen as solidarity with Jair Bolsonaro, another ousted president who clung to power. India has surpassed China as Asia’s biggest private-jet buyer, but not only because of rising numbers of super-rich. And Hong Kong’s quirky fusion cafes bloom abroad as they thin out at home.
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| 1:33.0 | In the Asian super-rich stakes, it used to be China that stood out, at least if you counted private jet sales. |
| 1:40.7 | Now Chinese numbers have plummeted, and the big buyer for personal planes in the region is India, but not for the same reasons. |
| 2:03.6 | And Hong Kong's Chachan Tang or tea restaurants are a quirk of history, a sugary mix of East and West. In their homeland, they're thinning out, but in the Hong Kong or diaspora from Australia to Taiwan to Canada, they're booming. First up, though. President Donald Trump is having yet another personality clash with yet another world leader. |
| 2:19.7 | This time it's Brazil's president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, or Lula. |
| 2:24.8 | Mr. Trump has amped up his favorite new threat, |
| 2:27.9 | saying he'll impose a 50% tariff on all Brazilian imports, |
| 2:32.0 | which would go into effect on Friday. |
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