Spain, the paradox of approaching the largest dictatorship and warning against the 'far-right'

There are things that shouldn't be normal in a democratic country, and one of them is the lenient treatment that the world's largest dictatorship receives.

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The crimes of the communist dictatorship of China, which is praised by Pedro Sánchez

The so-called People's Republic of China is a totalitarian regime, a one-party dictatorship in which the Communist Party of China (CPC) has exercised power since 1949 without free elections, vigorously repressing all opposition to the regime, violating human rights and maintaining a network of concentration camps, the Laogai, which is the Chinese version of the famous Soviet Gulag.

These are facts that are rarely reported in the Western media, perhaps because the large companies based in this dictatorship (and in which the CPC maintains political commissars) use their economic power to extend the regime's influence beyond its borders. It is astonishing that a dictatorship is allowed to extend its networks in this way in democratic countries, but what is most outrageous is that some governments are directly allied with this dictatorship, as is the case in Spain, governed by a coalition of socialists (PSOE) and communists (Sumar), led by the socialist Pedro Sánchez. It is the only country in the European Union with communist ministers.

The ideology of the current Spanish government is what explains its scandalous international policy. Sanchez demonizes a democratic country like Israel, falsely accusing it of committing "genocide" (an accusation the socialist leader has never leveled against Russia for its atrocious crimes in Ukraine), and at the same time praises a criminal regime like the Chinese communist dictatorship, omitting any criticism of its systematic human rights abuses, which include crimes of genocide against the Uyghur minority, about which the Sánchez government has not issued even the slightest criticism in seven years.

This rapprochement of the leftist Spanish government with China is what explains something as unsustainable as hiring the Chinese company Huawei to store police wiretaps, something that is straining relations between Spain and the United States, a country that warned of the company's connections with the Chinese communist dictatorship. Today Vozpópuli points out that the investigation opened in the US against Sánchez for the contract with Huawei points to the lobbies of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and José Blanco, who were part of the socialist government of Spain from 2004 to 2011, the first as president and the second as Minister of Public Works.

The most surreal thing, to be generous with the adjective, is that while they are carrying out an approach to the largest dictatorship in the world, a totalitarian regime that is an ally of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship, the Sánchez government dedicates a large part of its efforts to warning against the "far right", thus identifying it with the democratic opposition that bases its ideological theses on the rejection of the progressive dogmas of the PSOE. In other words, for Sánchez and his followers, being a democrat and right-wing is worse than being a communist dictator like Xi Jinping, whom the leftist Spanish government has never dedicated any kind of criticism. This can give us an idea of ​​​​what the left really understands by democracy.

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Photo: AFP. Xi Jinping, the current dictator of communist China.