{"id":4193,"date":"2026-04-14T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:31:11","slug":"xi-calls-on-spain-to-jointly-resist-law-of-the-jungle-in-a-turbulent-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4193\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi calls on Spain to jointly resist \u2018law of the jungle\u2019 in a turbulent world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China and Spain should work closely to resist \u201cthe law of the jungle\u201d and defend true multilateralism in a turbulent world caught in \u201ca contest between justice and power\u201d, Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in a meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The meeting came after both sides strongly condemned the US-Israel miliary actions on Iran and criticised the US blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sanchez, who landed in Beijing on Saturday for a five-day trip, is on his fourth visit to China in four years, as Madrid looks to strengthen bilateral ties with Beijing amid intensified tensions with Washington.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China\u2019s President Xi Jinping and Spain\u2019s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b76fa17e-65ef-4b9e-b900-dfe7ee40eae1_dce544d0.jpg\" title=\"China\u2019s President Xi Jinping and Spain\u2019s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>China\u2019s President Xi Jinping and Spain\u2019s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Xi\u2019s remarks came as the US blockade of Iran\u2019s ports was coming into effect, after hours of talks in Islamabad over the weekend failed to yield a deal to end the Israel-US war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cToday\u2019s world is in turmoil, caught in a contest between justice and power,\u201d Xi was quoted as saying by state news broadcaster CCTV, without referring to the Middle East situation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHow a country treats international law and the international order reflects its world view, its vision of order, its values and its sense of responsibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China and Spain are both \u201cprincipled nations that uphold justice and are willing to stand on the right side of history\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China and Spain should work closely to resist \u201cthe law of the jungle\u201d and defend true multilateralism in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3035,335,3037,194,333,31,3033,3036,82,205,17,3032,26,1215,3034],"class_list":{"0":"post-4193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-lei-jun","15":"tag-li-qiang","16":"tag-madrid","17":"tag-pedro-sanchez","18":"tag-spain","19":"tag-tsinghua-university","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-washington","22":"tag-xiaomi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}