Talking at a discussion board in Beijing, Sánchez hailed “robust ties” between China and Spain.
“Even on these points the place our positions don’t absolutely coincide, we keep a constructive willingness to have interaction in dialogue and cooperation,” he stated Monday in a video shared on his social media.
“We’re dedicated to growing a optimistic agenda and searching for consensual options that profit all events,” he added.
Commercial
He then met with the Spain-China Enterprise Advisory Council – a part of efforts to “deepen commerce and funding relations” between the 2 nations.
“Our goal is obvious: to foster a balanced relationship, based mostly on respect and reciprocity that advantages each nations,” Sánchez stated on his account on X.
Sánchez is ready to fulfill Premier Li Qiang at Beijing’s Nice Corridor of the Individuals on Monday afternoon, in addition to President Xi Jinping and prime lawmakers, in response to a schedule offered by his workplace.
The Spanish premier met with Xi throughout his final go to to China in March 2023, and took half within the Boao Discussion board for Asia – much like the World Financial Discussion board held in Davos – in China’s Hainan province.
His journey may even take him to Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday, the place he’ll meet native officers and companies in addition to inaugurate a brand new Cervantes Institute cultural centre.
Commerce tensions
The premier’s arrival in Beijing got here shortly after Venezuelan opposition determine Edmundo González Urrutia — who insists he, not strongman Nicolas Maduro, is the nation’s legit president-elect — fled for exile in Spain.
Talking at a socialist social gathering assembly on Saturday, Sánchez described González Urrutia as “a hero who Spain is not going to abandon”.
Beijing enjoys shut ties with Maduro’s authorities.
Sánchez’s go to additionally comes in opposition to the backdrop of mounting commerce tensions between the European Union and China.
The European Fee, which oversees the bloc’s commerce coverage, introduced final month that it deliberate to impose five-year import duties of as much as 36 % on electrical automobiles imported from China.
Additionally final month, Beijing launched a probe into EU subsidies of some dairy merchandise imported into China.
In June Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation into pork imports from the bloc in response to an software submitted by a neighborhood commerce grouping on behalf of home producers.
The Iberian nation is the EU’s largest exporter of pork merchandise to China, promoting over 560,000 tonnes to the world’s second-largest financial system final 12 months at a complete worth of €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion), in response to trade physique Interporc.