China turns to Western countries to support multilateral and open cooperation, said President Xi Jinpin Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, while Beijing is trying to receive support for his allies to rise to the tariff struggle with the United States.
“Both parties should contribute to the construction of a fair and intelligent system of global management, maintain peace and security of the World World and promote general development and prosperity,” said Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Pedro Pedro Pedro Pedro Pedro Pedro Sanchez, who is in Beijing to visit two Asian countries.
The visit occurs at a difficult moment for Europe and China.
Prices announced last week, and then suspended by US President Donald Trump, may encourage the European Union to strive to expand trade with China, the third largest consumer market in the world after the United States and the European Union.
SI did not give direct references to Trump or customs rights to Chinese imports, which currently rises to 145%, referring only to “numerous risks and problems” that the world faces and can only encounter “unity and cooperation”.
Sanchez makes his third trip to China two years later, at a time when his socialist government seeks to increase the investment of the Asian giant.
It is expected that Sanchez is also going to gather with business leaders from various Chinese companies, many of which produce electric batteries or technology of renewable energy sources.
After a meeting with the XI, Sanchez said that Spain supports “more balanced relations between the European Union and China, discovering agreed decisions about our differences, and wider cooperation in areas of common interest.”
“Commercial wars are not good, no one wins. And, of course, the world needs China and the United States for dialogue, ”he said.
Washington warnings
But before the trip of Sanchez, who also drove him to Vietnam, US Minister of Finance Scott Immentus criticized Spain for his approach to China.
Any country that is trying to get closer to Beijing will “cut its own throat” because Chinese manufacturers will try to sell products that cannot sell in the USA, said immortal on Tuesday.
“The expansion of business relations that we have with other countries, including the same important partner as China, do not opposed anyone,” the Minister of Agriculture of Spanish Agriculture Luis Planas in Vietnam said on Wednesday.
“Everyone should protect their own interests,” the plan said.
Madrid includes in Beijing
Spain, the fourth largest economy in the eurozone and growth leader, in recent years in China there was less enemy than in other EU countries.
After last year, he initially maintained EU tariffs for electric cars made in China, given that they have benefited from unfair advantages, Spain abstained from voting for the proposal.
The plans insisted that Madrid’s approach to Beijing “contributes to the collective efforts undertaken by some countries of the European Union to leave this situation.”
Although Chinese investments in Spain have increased, Spain has less trade relations with China than in Germany or Italy.
Spain is one of the main pork suppliers to China, providing about 20% of its imports, according to Interpor, the Spanish Association of Pork Manufacturers.
“For us, China is the main market,” said Daniel de Miguel, deputy director of Interpor.
Spain, which last year produced 56% of its electricity from renewable sources, needs the necessary raw materials, solar panels and green technologies of Beijing, like other European countries that refuse fossil fuel.
In December, Chinese CATL electric batteries announced a joint venture of 4.1 billion euros with the Auto Stellantis manufacturer to build a battery in Northern Spain.
This initiative followed the agreements signed last year between the Spanish and Chinese companies, and hygro energy for the construction of green hydrogen infrastructure in the country.