Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos is a Full Professor at the Institute of Economics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he coordinates the Center for Economic History and is a researcher at the Center for Conjuncture and Economic Policy Studies (Cecon) and at Transforma. He developed the arguments presented here in greater detail in the paper “Donald Trump’s Unilateralism, Brazilian Nationalism, and the China-BRICS Nexus,” presented at the Fudan-Latin America Universities Consortium – FLAUC 7th Annual Meeting (PUCP, Lima, Peru, December 4-5).