{"id":57089,"date":"2024-09-13T06:59:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57089"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:17:32","slug":"pedro-sanchez-electric-bikes-and-communist-china-a-series-of-mere-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/13\/pedro-sanchez-electric-bikes-and-communist-china-a-series-of-mere-coincidences\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez, electric bikes and communist China: a series of mere coincidences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Spain's socialist president, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, began his second official trip to communist China in less than two years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/23\/the-relationship-of-three-spanish-parties-with-chinese-communism-and-the-exception-of-vox\/\">The relationship of three Spanish parties with Chinese communism and the exception of Vox<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/01\/pedro-sanchezs-antidemocratic-international-and-his-friendly-photos-with-dictators\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez's antidemocratic international and his friendly photos with dictators<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2023\/310323-sanchez-comparecencia-china-pekin.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first trip<\/a> was in March 2023. Then, with a very smiling face, <strong>S\u00e1nchez took the photo with dictator Xi Jinping that you can see above these lines<\/strong>, a clear sign that the Spanish socialist did not reproach the Chinese communist at all regarding the numerous human rights violations committed by his dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>This Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/paginas\/2024\/090924-pedro-sanchez-pekin-foro-fundacion-consejo.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez met with Li Qiang<\/a>, the prime minister of the Chinese communist dictatorship, and told him: <em>\"<strong>We want to build bridges to defend together a fair trade order<\/strong> that allows our economies to grow and benefit our industries and citizens.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, on the third and final day of his trip to the Asian country, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/11\/sanchez-insta-a-la-ue-a-reconsiderar-los-aranceles-a-los-coches-electricos-chinos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanchez called on the European Union to reconsider tariffs on Chinese electric cars<\/a>, <strong>thus favouring the dominant position of the Asian giant<\/strong>, whose powerful industry benefits from much less demanding working conditions and a more lax legislative framework than that of European car companies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/economia\/2024\/09\/12\/66e2fae8fc6c8330198b45af.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez's about-face on this issue has angered Brussels,<\/a> which believes that <strong>the Spanish socialist weakens the common European position against communist China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, one day after returning from communist China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2024\/120924-sanchez-fomento-transporte-publico.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez announced 40 million euros to promote the use of electric bicycles in Spain<\/a>, stating: <em>\"It is about increasing the modal share of the bicycle in daily travel and <strong>having more bicycles in more cities, for more people<\/strong>\"<\/em>, claiming that in this way we will have <em>\"healthier, cleaner, more agile and more welcoming\" cities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanchezdelreal\/status\/1834227982728102250\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">V\u00edctor S\u00e1nchez del Real pointed out<\/a> a very interesting fact about S\u00e1nchez's latest quip: <strong>Communist China is the world's largest producer of electric bicycles<\/strong>. Coincidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boe.es\/buscar\/doc.php?id=DOUE-L-2024-80360\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bicycles from that country are also paying tariffs in the EU<\/a>. If S\u00e1nchez were to succeed in having these tariffs cancelled, as he requested this week, <strong>communist China could obtain a dominant position in European imports<\/strong>, since currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palco23.com\/entorno\/las-exportaciones-de-bicicletas-en-la-ue-caen-un-10-en-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most of the electric bikes imported by the EU come from free China (Taiwan)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/23\/the-relationship-of-three-spanish-parties-with-chinese-communism-and-the-exception-of-vox\/\">the long-standing friendly relationship between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the PSOE<\/a> (the Socialist Party led by Pedro S\u00e1nchez), <strong>it is not hard to imagine which country will benefit the most from yesterday's announcement about bicycles<\/strong>. Beijing has been buying political favors from countries with economic problems for years, and <strong>S\u00e1nchez heads the most ruinous economy in the EU because of his socialist economic recipes<\/strong>. What promises have the leaders of the CPC - the absolute master of that country - made to S\u00e1nchez in exchange for these measures to favor Beijing's interests?<\/p>\n<p><strong>There may be people who prefer to believe in mere coincidences,<\/strong> but what we have seen this week is not. Just as Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero does with the Venezuelan socialist dictatorship, <strong>S\u00e1nchez is acting as a mere fixer for the communist dictatorship in Beijing,<\/strong> favoring its interests and tolerating its interference, as we already saw with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/26\/the-illegal-police-stations-of-communist-china-in-spain-and-the-silence-of-sanchez\/\">the case of the police stations of communist China in Spain<\/a>. <strong>S\u00e1nchez's announcement is not about ecology or public transport: it is another favor to his friends in Beijing,<\/strong> just as he has done with the tariffs on Chinese electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2023\/310323-sanchez-comparecencia-china-pekin.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">La Moncloa<\/a>. A picture of the friendly meeting held by socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez and Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping on March 31, 2023 in Beijing.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Spain&#8217;s socialist president, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, began his second official trip to communist China in less than two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[12847,22692,693,2721,17125,11462],"class_list":["post-57089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-communist-party-of-china-cpc","tag-li-qiang","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}