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Leaders of China, Spain pledge closer ties amid 'crumbling' world order
Xi and Sánchez called for stronger communication and mutual trust as Spain seeks more market access and China backs peace efforts on Iran.
- On Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged to deepen bilateral ties in Beijing, aiming to safeguard global peace amid an international order Xi described as "crumbling."
- Spain has taken a more independent foreign policy stance, recently barring the United States from using two military bases for warplanes involved in the Iran conflict, which Sánchez described as "illegal."
- Ahead of the meeting, Sánchez urged China to leverage its global influence to help end conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon, framing closer cooperation as necessary to stabilize the international order.
- Both leaders agreed to "enhance communication, consolidate mutual trust and cooperate closely to resist any regression towards the law of the jungle," while China criticized recent strikes risking Middle East instability.
- This visit, the fourth in four years, positions Spain as a strategic partner to Beijing as other Western governments manage complex trade and security tensions with the world's second-largest economy.
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Spain's Prime Minister will become the loud advocate of Beijing's vision of a new world order at his meeting with China's head of state. With his "Pragmatism" he could harm Spain and the EU in the long term.
The president of the government concludes his fourth visit to the Asian giant in just three years, an unusual frequency in the history of relations and evidence of the abrupt rapprochement.From Beijing, Sanchez accuses the United States and Israel of "violating international law" and threatening those, like him, who criticize his actions, and shows his willingness to reform with China the international institutions to make them "more democratic".
Xi calls for closer ties with Spain in face of global 'chaos'
"Both China and Spain are principled countries that stand for justice. They should strengthen communication, consolidate mutual trust, and cooperate closely to oppose the world's regression to the law of the jungle," Mr. Xi said during talks in the Great Hall of the People
Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met with Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing and announced 19 bilateral agreements to strengthen economic ties between the countries.
China and Spain have pledged to deepen ties and safeguard world peace within the framework of an international order that Chinese President Xi Jinping described as "disintegrating" in a statement during a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Beijing. He warned against the return of the "law of the jungle" to international relations at a time of global chaos.
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