[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Extending a lifeline to the beleaguered Brazilian president, Chinese officials announced a sweeping list of investment plans and loans in Brazil on Tuesday totaling dozens of billions of dollars, including in a contentious project for a railway to the Pacific that would cut through the Amazon rain forest.

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