BRASILIA, March 25 — Brazil will seek Chinese technology and investment to develop a semiconductor industry in the South American country despite US attempts to discourage association with China in this area, a senior presidential adviser told Reuters.His top foreign policy adviser, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, said Brazil cannot afford to take sides in growing tensions between China and the United States.
“I don’t pay attention to messages. If the US wants, they can propose bigger and better conditions and that’s it, and we will choose theirs,” Amorim said. Amorim said Brazil does not see the world divided between China and the United States and will not adopt an ideology from either of them, be it “international communism or the war of democracies against autocracies.”