Reading with Xi Jinping | The Lusiads “Onde a terra se acabae o mar começa...” (Here ends the land, and here the sea begins.) This acclaimed quote from The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes, a distinguished poet of Portugal, vividly depicts the superb geographic location of his motherland. These lines were quoted in a signed article by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled "A Friendship across Time and Space, A Partnership for the Future" published on Dec. 3, 2018, in the Portuguese newspaper Diario d