The Spanish prime minister met with Xi throughout his final go to to China in March 2023, and took half within the Boao Discussion board for Asia – much like the World Financial Discussion board held in Davos – in China’s Hainan province.
His journey may even take him to Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday, the place he’ll meet native officers and companies in addition to inaugurate a brand new Cervantes Institute cultural centre.
The prime minister’s arrival in Beijing got here shortly after Venezuelan opposition determine Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia – who insists he, not strongman Nicolas Maduro, is the nation’s official president-elect – fled for exile in Spain.
Talking at a socialist social gathering assembly on Saturday, Sanchez described Gonzalez Urrutia as “a hero who Spain is not going to abandon”.
Beijing enjoys shut ties with Maduro’s authorities.
Sanchez’s go to additionally comes towards the backdrop of mounting commerce tensions between the EU and China.
The European Fee, which oversees the bloc’s commerce coverage, introduced final month that it deliberate to impose five-year import duties of as much as 36 per cent on electrical automobiles imported from China.
That very same month, Beijing launched a probe into EU subsidies of some dairy merchandise imported into China.
In June, Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation into pork imports from the bloc, in response to an software submitted by a neighborhood commerce grouping on behalf of home producers.
The Iberian nation is the EU’s largest exporter of pork merchandise to China, promoting over 560,000 tonnes to the world’s second-largest economic system final yr at a complete worth of €1.2 billion (US$1.3 billion), based on business physique Interporc.
