Brazil–Taiwan_relations
Brazil–Taiwan relations
Bilateral relations
The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Federative Republic of Brazil do not have official diplomatic relations, as Brazil acknowledges the One-China policy. However, the two nations maintain unofficial diplomatic relations via economic and cultural offices.
 Taiwan |
 Brazil |
|---|---|
| Diplomatic mission | |
| Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Brazil | Commercial Office of Brazil to Taipei |
Formal relations between the Empire of Brazil and the Qing dynasty were established in September 1880 with the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation. The Chinese refused, however, to permit Brazilians to hire Chinese as contract laborers, knowing that non-white laborers were treated "as machines or as cheap labour". The British were also opposed to the importation of Chinese labor to Brazil, believing it would inevitably result in de facto slavery. (Slavery in Brazil was only abolished in 1888.) Late in 1893, José de Costa Azevedo, Baron of Ladario, went to Beijing to negotiate a new treaty on immigration, but the Chinese were uninterested.[1] Relations continued under the Republic of China (ROC) on its founding in 1912 which Brazil recognized and maintained even after the central government was moved to the former Japanese colony of Taiwan (1895–1945).[2]
In 1971, Brazil voted against United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 which replaced the ROC with the PRC at the United Nations, but from August 15, 1974, Brazil recognized the People's Republic of China (PRC) and suspended diplomatic relation with Republic of China (Taiwan).[3] After diplomatic relations between Taiwan and Brazil were suspended, both diplomatic missions were replaced by representative offices.
The Taiwanese Government established the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Brazil (Chinese: 駐巴西臺北經濟文化代表處) at Brasília,[4] and two other offices in São Paulo[5] and Rio de Janeiro. The office in Rio de Janeiro was closed in 2002.[6]
The Government of Brazil similarly established the Commercial Office of Brazil to Taipei (Portuguese: Escritório Comercial do Brasil em Taipé, Chinese: 巴西商務辦事處) in the capital of Taiwan.[7]
Significant immigration of Taiwanese to Brazil started in 1960s. Most Taiwanese Brazilian were farmers from Kaohsiung.[2]
Many Taiwanese Brazilian now live in São Paulo , Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Rio de Janeiro. In the northern Brazil, the fifth-large city Recife is another main settlement of Taiwanese Brazilian, mostly from Meinong, Kaohsiung.[2] In the suburbs of São Paulo, over hundred Taiwanese Brazilian established mushroom farms which supply all of Brazil.[8]
Taiwan is one of Brazil's most important trade partners in Asia. The main export products from Brazil to Taiwan are ore, soybean, corn, woods, steel, cotton, leather and granite. Brazil is the eighteenth trade partner for Taiwan. The main products which Taiwan exports to Brazil are electrical equipment, record equipment, LCD, steel products and plastic products.[9]
Many Taiwanese electronic companies have established factories in Brazil. AS Foxconn, Asus, MSI, Compal, Gigabyte, Acer, AOC, D-Link and so on.[9]
- Jeffrey Lesser, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999), p. 29.
- The Reaction of ROC Government to Taiwanese immigrated to Brazil in 1960s (PDF), National Taiwan University, June 2013, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-14
- "中华人民共和国与各国建立外交关系日期简表". www.gov.cn. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- "巴西-里約熱內盧 - 外交部領事事務局全球資訊網". boca.gov.tw. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- 中時電子報 (11 August 2015). "書刊頻道 - 中時電子報". 中時電子報. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- "經濟部國際貿易局 ::: 國家檔". trade.gov.tw. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2015.