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TheRepublic of China (Taiwan) and theFederative Republic of Brazil do not have officialdiplomatic relations, as Brazil acknowledges theOne-China policy. However, the two nations maintain unofficial diplomatic relations via economic and cultural offices.
Formal relations between theEmpire of Brazil and theQing dynasty were established in September 1880 with the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation. The Chinese refused, however, to permit Brazilians to hire Chinese ascontract 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 inde 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 theRepublic of China (ROC) on its founding in 1912 which Brazil recognized and maintained even after the central government was moved to the formerJapanese colony of Taiwan (1895–1945).[2]
In 1971, Brazil voted againstUnited Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 which replaced the ROC with the PRC at theUnited Nations, but from August 15, 1974, Brazil recognized thePeople's Republic of China (PRC) and suspended diplomatic relations withRepublic of China (Taiwan).[3] After diplomatic relations between Taiwan and Brazil were suspended, both diplomatic missions were replaced by representative offices.
TheTaiwanese Government established theTaipei Economic and Cultural Office in Brazil (Chinese:駐巴西臺北經濟文化代表處) atBrasília,[4] and two other offices inSão Paulo[5] andRio de Janeiro. The office in Rio de Janeiro was closed in 2002.[6]
TheGovernment of Brazil similarly established theCommercial 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 the 1960s. Most Taiwanese Brazilians were farmers fromKaohsiung.[2]
Many Taiwanese Brazilians now live in the states ofSão Paulo,Rio Grande do Sul,Paraná andRio de Janeiro. The ninth-largest city in Brazil,Recife,[8] is another important Taiwanese Brazilian settlement, most of whom are fromMeinong, Kaohsiung.[2] In the suburbs of São Paulo, over a hundred Taiwanese Brazilians have established mushroom farms that supply the whole of Brazil.[9]
Taiwan is one of Brazil's most important trade partners in Asia. The main export products from Brazil to Taiwan areore,soybean,corn,woods,steel,cotton,leather andgranite. Brazil is the eighteenth trade partner for Taiwan. The main products which Taiwan exports to Brazil are electrical equipment, record equipment,LCD,steel products andplastic products.[10]
Many Taiwanese electronic companies have established factories in Brazil. ASFoxconn,Asus,MSI,Compal,Gigabyte,Acer,AOC,D-Link and so on.[10]
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