{"id":4154,"date":"2026-04-14T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:49:01","slug":"xi-and-sanchez-say-china-and-spain-should-help-safeguard-multilateralism-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4154\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi and S\u00e1nchez say China and Spain should help safeguard multilateralism"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING (AP) \u2014 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 war in Iran<\/a>, during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\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

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

S\u00e1nchez is in China for his fourth trip in just over three years<\/a> to the world\u2019s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n

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

S\u00e1nchez sees China as key to end the war<\/p>\n

Later, during a press conference, S\u00e1nchez said that China was the only global player he could see helping end wars in Iran and other places, such as Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it very difficult to find other interlocutors, beyond China, who can resolve this situation in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Pedro S\u00e1nchez said, urging the Asian giant to do more on the diplomatic front.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez said that his country wants to avoid impunity for those who commit crimes in places like Gaza, where he said a \u201cgenocide\u201d has been committed.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational law is being violated today, fundamentally by one country: the government of Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is also an absolutely illegal response from the Iranian regime regarding a war that we have described from the very beginning as a mistake and an illegality.\u201d<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez has been one of Europe\u2019s loudest critics of the U.S. and Israel\u2019s military actions in the Middle East. His government recently declared its airspace closed to U.S. planes<\/a> being used in the Iran war, and says it is not allowing the U.S. to use jointly operated military bases<\/a> in southern Spain for actions related to the Iran war.<\/p>\n

Spain hopes for greater access for its products in China<\/p>\n

One of the goals of S\u00e1nchez\u2019s trip has been to find ways to reduce the trade gap with China, and he said that after raising the issue in his meeting with Xi, he sensed \u201cunderstanding and a willingness to work to achieve that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that Spain will sign 19 agreements, 10 of them on the economic side, including some to expand access for Spanish agrifood products in China and boost exports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current trade imbalance between Europe and China, and between Spain and China, is excessive, and we must do everything possible to correct it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The prime minister added that China must see Spain and Europe as a place to invest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 The leaders of China and Spain on Tuesday pledged to strengthen their relations and work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2435,335,2434,1220,31,1219,205,24,17,913,394,2607],"class_list":{"0":"post-4154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-government","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iran-war","14":"tag-pedro-sanchez","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-spain-government","18":"tag-world-news","19":"tag-xi-jinping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}