The strengthening of BRICS, advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and the energy transition will be the main drivers of global growth in 2026, predicted José Ricardo dos Santos Luz Júnior, CEO of Brazilian business entity Lide China.

The development of regional blocs, such as BRICS, and we have seen this in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other countries, with increasing development in this integration between peoples.

Artificial intelligence improves productivity and efficiency. And the energy transition to clean energy, wind, solar, green hydrogen, among others, also leads to an improvement in productivity and efficiency in global production chains.

Brazil and China are large, they are giants: Brazil here in the west and China in Asia. And they have been developing an increasingly intense relationship, not only in the field of traditional trade, with Brazil continuing to export large quantities of iron ore, soybeans, oil, cellulose, and animal proteins to China.

(Source: XINHUA Portuguese, on December 29)