{"id":9033,"date":"2025-04-10T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9033\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:18:08","slug":"spain-seeks-stronger-trade-ties-with-china-amid-us-tariff-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9033\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain seeks stronger trade ties with China amid US tariff doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong> Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez is currently in Beijing, marking the second stop of his two-country tour of Asia, set against the backdrop of escalating geopolitical tensions stemming from Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff war. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam on Wednesday, S\u00e1nchez praised the tariff pause as &#8220;a gateway to negotiation and agreement between countries,&#8221; after Trump suspended levies on most countries, with the exception of China, for 90 days, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/04\/10\/spains-pedro-sanchez-aims-for-closer-trade-ties-with-china-amid-us-tariffs-uncertainty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Euronews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his visit, the White House warned the Spanish government against cosying up to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that looking to China instead of the United States would be a &#8220;losing bet for the Europeans&#8221; and was akin to would be like &#8220;cutting your own throat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez is the first European leader to make an official visit to China since the escalation of tariff tensions between the US and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez is currently in Beijing, marking the second stop of his two-country tour of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[1395,2000,299,104,1201,2612],"class_list":{"0":"post-9033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-trade","13":"tag-us-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114315756061862087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}