{"id":4118,"date":"2026-04-14T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:07:09","slug":"xi-and-sanchez-say-china-and-spain-should-help-safeguard-multilateralism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4118\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi and S\u00e1nchez say China and Spain should help safeguard multilateralism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The leaders of China and Spain on Tuesday have pledged to strengthen their relations and work to safeguard multilateralism at a time when the world is being impacted by various conflicts, including the recent war in Iran<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BEIJING &#8212; The leaders of China and Spain on Tuesday pledged to strengthen their relations and work to safeguard multilateralism at a time when the world is being impacted by various conflicts, including the recent <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-blockade-hormuz-april-13-2026-ed7a6cd4bc61dc47f317a2c82afcc1c9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war in Iran<\/a>, during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe should strengthen communication, consolidate mutual trust, cooperate closely, oppose the world\u2019s retrogression to the law of the jungle, and jointly safeguard genuine multilateralism,\u201d said Chinese President Xi Jinping during a reception for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez at the Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">S\u00e1nchez agreed and said both countries \u201ccan contribute to finding solutions to the various trade tensions that exist, to the geopolitical difficulties and complexities of today\u2019s world, to the wars, to the environmental and social challenges that afflict the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">S\u00e1nchez is in China for his <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spain-china-xi-jinping-iran-trump-war-d53d0157078c1aabc4f022f8553ea8d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth trip in just over three years<\/a> to the world\u2019s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Spain is looking to strengthen its political and commercial ties with Beijing, and the visit comes as S\u00e1nchez faces a strained relationship with the U.S. over his opposition to the war in Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leaders of China and Spain on Tuesday have pledged to strengthen their relations and work to safeguard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2999,2417,1220,1219,24,17,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-4118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-2999","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}