China congratulates Lula on re-election

China on Monday congratulated Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his re-election, even as challenger Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept defeat. "China has noted that Brazil's Superior Electoral Court has announced President Lula has won the second round of the Brazilian general election, and expresses its congratulations," Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular briefing, adding that Beijing was "willing to work with Brazil to continue advancing the building of a China-Brazil community with a shared future". Asked about Bolsonaro saying he would request an annulment of the elections, Guo said: "China respects the choice of the Brazilian people." Leftist leaders from across the Americas also congratulated Lula on his re-election. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated Lula's win in a post on X, saying: "Long live democracy, the people of Brazil won." Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated Lula on his "historic victory that guarantees the continuity of the path of peace, sovereignty, and social justice". Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner, who is currently under house arrest for corruption, said on X that the Brazilian leader "knew how to awaken in his compatriots the feeling and sense needed to win". Uruguay's President Yamandu Orsi said on X that he had spoken with Lula and...