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Ohtani instead entrusts the team’s public relations staff to decline interviews on his behalf.

However, relations between them have since soured, with access to the Red Sea becoming a major flashpoint.

The Carney government has had to walk a tightrope in dealing with public dismay over US relations.

Lula described the meeting as an opportunity to "restore" friendly relations between "the two largest Western democracies" and reiterated that the US had a trade surplus with Brazil.

Kearns, who has been a vocal critic of China, said she was concerned the government was "putting our national security second" because it wanted to reset relations with Beijing.