Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday welcomed Brazil’s support for Beijing’s “One China policy” that states Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, a move that strengthens bilateral ties with South America’s largest country.

Wang met with his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira in Brasilia where they discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and how they can be resolved, Vieira said, with China’s top diplomat saying the two trade partners need to build closer levels of confidence.

China-Brazil relations were ruffled during the far-right government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, and have improved under his leftist successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.