RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Prompted by Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, last year President Jair Bolsonaro called on the Chinese regime to replace its ambassador to Brazil, Yang Wanming.
The decision was made in April and reiterated in November, after social media clashes between the diplomat and deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro. Beijing ignored the Brazilian request both times.
The trigger that prompted the request was the Twitter clash between Eduardo and the Chinese diplomat. In March 2020, the deputy published a text comparing the Covid-19 pandemic to the Chernobyl nuclear accident (1986) in the former Soviet Union, and claiming that . . .
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