Brazil is one of the most famous countries in the world.
This is not only because it has the strongest squad of football stars in the world, but it is also a food producer. But while everyone is praising Brazil, few people know that it is such a country, but there are still tens of millions of people who still can't afford to eat, and even coffee is a luxury.
Not only that, but the proportion of people suffering from hunger in this "powerhouse" in the eyes of others is still increasing year by year.
Such a terrifying number is something that many people never expected.
Some people say that today's Brazil has long since decayed from a glorious gold brick to a slab that no one cares about, but what is going on?
How could Brazil, once a powerful country, fall into such a situation?
If God is compared to a relative in the United States, then Brazil's relationship with God is certainly not bad.
As the largest countries in Latin America, Brazil and the United States also have an excellent environment where "there are oceans in the east and west, and there are no strong enemies in the north and south".
The United States gradually built the most powerful country in the world with its European colonizers, and Brazil also absorbed advanced culture from European countries, especially Portugal.
Driven by these European colonizers, Brazil soon tasted the fruits of the two "industrial revolutions" and transformed itself into an industrial country.
Development is often relative, and if you want to surpass others, you not only need your own efforts, but also refer to the regression of the other party.
While the ensuing "two world wars" and the "African independence movement" ravaged other continents, Brazil's unique environment allowed it to stay out of the situation and still maintain rapid development.
After the end of World War II, many strategically minded immigrants set their sights on this thriving country. They bring advanced technology and capital, and are willing to take root here, making it a second home.
With the help of these elites, Brazil's development has been improved by several steps. By the 70s of the last century, its shipbuilding industry was already the second largest in the world, and the civil regional aircraft industry was also the third in the world.
At the same time, its metallurgy, chemical industry, electric power, construction, textile, petroleum and other industries are also in the forefront of the world's developed countries.
Not only that, but Brazil's vast territory also offers great prospects for the development of agriculture and aquaculture. Everywhere in the endless plantations, plump cherries hang from the branches and leaves, and when ripe, these cherries can not only meet the needs of their own people, but also be exported to the world in exchange for foreign exchange.
As for sugarcane, soybeans and palms, which are oily crops, in addition to meeting people's daily consumption, they can even be refined into clean and pollution-free "green" fuels. At this point, even the United States, the most powerful country in the world, cannot do it.
In the midst of this sustained economic development, Brazil is also facing new problems that, if not properly handled, can have dire consequences.
Japanese immigrants make up the vast majority of immigrants in Brazil. This is not only because Japan was bombed into ruins at the end of World War II, but also because Brazil at that time enthusiastically extended an olive branch to Japan.
Since these Japanese who are longing for the mainland, since they cannot reach neighboring China, they might as well sail across the ocean to distant Brazil.
They settled here and developed here. They transferred all of Japan's advanced industrial technology and production concepts to Brazil, and soon earned a lot of capital and quickly became the upper class in Brazil.
Once these people reach a certain size, Brazil's economy will inevitably be closely integrated with Japan's economy, and Brazil will become a second Japan before you know it.
While Japan seized the opportunity of the rapid development of the global economy in the last century and its economy rose again, Brazil followed suit and achieved economic take-off.
It can be said that Brazil will go as Japan goes, and even many dignitaries in Brazil have Japanese immigrant ancestry.
But who would have thought that if Japan reached a dead end, then Brazil would also be doomed, or even worse.
In the 80s of the last century, Japan's real estate and financial industries rose rapidly, and these two industries quickly coerced a large amount of capital from the country, making Japan's economy present a mirage.
Brazil followed suit, and immediately followed the blind development of real estate and finance, and it also swelled in an instant.
At that time, Brazil even compared itself to the United States in Latin America, and was arrogant to the point of changing its industrial structure.
Objectively speaking, Japan, as an island nation, has a major flaw, that is, the narrowness of its national thinking. Because such a nation is constrained by the living environment, it often does not consider the problem from the perspective of the overall situation, but is prone to adopt an extreme way of dealing with it.
According to their own words, the Japanese are very "gambling", not only gambling on themselves, but also on the fortune of the country.
If Japan alone could make a small U-turn with their small territory, but if Brazil, which is the size of 22 Japan, was brought to the table, the consequences of losing the bet could be imagined.
Brazil has an advanced industry, but also a well-developed agriculture. If these two real economies, which are the lifeblood of the country, can be stabilized, then the whole of Brazil will be able to recover slowly no matter what kind of economic blow it suffers.
But when Japanese immigrants gradually dominated the Brazilian economy, tragedy was inevitable.
Japan's small land area leaves very little room for real estate development, so the Japanese have set their eyes on Brazil, which is as far away as Latin America.
Brazil's vast territory meant that it had more room for real estate development than in Japan, and soon Japanese investors flocked to the country to continue their "business" that had not been completed in Japan.
They come here to make money on investment, without thinking about Brazil's long-term development, and the country's leadership clearly doesn't think too much about the risks in order to pursue economic gains.
With the indiscriminate infusion of Japanese immigrants, many plantations soon disappeared from the map, and with them endless high-rise buildings.
Brazil's industrial base is thinner than Japan's, and if you want to upgrade your equipment and generate profits, it will take a long time.
The Japanese immigrants apparently did not have such patience for long, and they sold their equipment, closed their factories, turned vast factories into resorts, and developed service and tourism industries.
It is indeed easy for these tertiary industries to make money, and the flow of funds is relatively fast, and they quickly earn back rich returns for investors.
However, who would have thought that a sudden economic crisis was about to erupt, and the dreams of both Japan and Brazil would come to an abrupt end.
When Japan's economy was hit hard, even many ordinary Japanese people were saddled with huge debts that they would have to pay for a lifetime, and these debts not only crushed individuals, but also put Japan on the "lost twenty years".
Brazil is even worse because it is much larger than Japan, and its natural losses are dozens of times that of Japan. A large number of half-built buildings are in ruins, and empty resorts are gradually becoming "haunted houses" that no one cares about.
Even large cities such as Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, have seen a large number of slums. When everyone can't get a job and can't live, then the ensuing deterioration of law and order becomes a headache.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese immigrants immediately thought of cashing in and returning to Japan, leaving only a mess for the locals to deal with.
At a time when Brazil is in devastation, facing economic collapse and political turmoil, what does the future hold?
Brazil has thought about reviving industry and agriculture, but these two fundamental industries will not be restored overnight.
The people want to eat, and the country wants to develop, these are urgent things. The chief designer in the Brazilian superstructure is simply not given much time to think about it.
In the end, they can only set their sights on the external world again, hoping to stimulate the internal circulation of their own development through the external circulation of doing business with other countries, gradually restore economic vitality, and establish a good economic ecology.
At first, they thought of the United States and the developed countries in Europe, if they could do the best with these countries, they could quickly earn back a lot of money.
But how can these capitalist predators be so kind, they see Brazil's angry economy, they can't wait to pounce on it, and in the harsh ** clauses they set, Brazil's economy not only does not get better, but worse.
Just when Brazil was feeling hopeless, they inadvertently saw distant China.
At that time, China had experienced more than 20 years of reform and opening up, and its economic development momentum was extremely rapid. When Japan's economy stagnated, China gradually succeeded Japan as the world's second largest economy.
Perhaps because they were bitten by a snake for ten years and were afraid of the well rope, Brazilians were very scared at first when they saw the Chinese, who looked very similar to the Japanese. They feared that the wisdom and cunning of the Oriental peoples would worsen Brazil's economy.
However, in contact with the Chinese, they discovered the essential difference between the Chinese and the Japanese. Deeply educated in Confucianism, Chinese attach great importance to friendship, and often value win-win cooperation and long-term development when doing business.
When Brazil resumes agricultural development, the Chinese are willing to take risks and actively invest in production and management.
This not only reduces Brazil's financial burden, but also closely ties China's interests to Brazil's interests, increasing Brazil's trust.
Once the agricultural products are ripe, in addition to satisfying the livelihood of Brazilians, they are continuously exported to China in exchange for foreign exchange to continue to buy Chinese industrial products.
Such a model could not only revive Brazil's economy, but even bring it back to industry, killing two birds with one stone.
In 2001, when China proposed to establish a broader cooperation, Brazil did not hesitate to extend its hands and form a "BRICS" with China, Russia, and India.
Now, more than 20 years later, the economic and trade cooperation of the "BRICS" countries has made significant progress, not only Brazil's national strength has recovered, but even South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Ethiopia have also joined.
These countries within the scope of the "BRICS" can not only enjoy special preferential treatment, but also let down their guard and cooperate more extensively, and believe that one day in the future, Brazil will be able to change from a brick to a real BRICS and re-enter the stage of a strong country.