{"id":61788,"date":"2025-11-11T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61788"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:58:21","slug":"chinese-communism-is-already-referring-to-pedro-sanchezs-spain-as-the-china-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/11\/11\/chinese-communism-is-already-referring-to-pedro-sanchezs-spain-as-the-china-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese communism is already referring to Pedro S\u00e1nchez's Spain as the 'China of Europe'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/21\/the-crimes-of-the-communist-dictatorship-of-china-which-is-praised-by-pedro-sanchez\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez's rapprochement with the Chinese communist dictatorship<\/a> is creating increasing strategic risks for Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/08\/22\/spain-the-paradox-of-approaching-the-largest-dictatorship-and-warning-against-the-far-right\/\">Spain, the paradox of approaching the largest dictatorship and warning against the 'far-right'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/21\/the-crimes-of-the-communist-dictatorship-of-china-which-is-praised-by-pedro-sanchez\/\">The crimes of the communist dictatorship of China, which is praised by Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casareal.es\/ES\/Actividades\/Paginas\/actividades_viajes_detalle.aspx?data=874\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the King and Queen of Spain began a visit to communist China<\/a>, <strong>in a double maneuver organized by Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government to favor that dictatorship<\/strong> (a totalitarian one-party regime that has killed millions of people but receives praise from S\u00e1nchez and not a single criticism for its human rights violations) <strong>and also to discredit the Crown<\/strong>, especially in the eyes of its center-right supporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S\u00e1nchez has already made three official trips to communist China<\/strong>, in which he has never uttered even the slightest reproach for <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.elmundo.es\/la-lectura\/2024\/06\/26\/66740f7bfdddff7e698b4576.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the genocide against the Uyghur people<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanitas.es\/la-china-es-culpable-del-genocidio-masivo-de-1-2-millones-de-tibetanos\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against the Tibetan people<\/a>, nor for the existence of <strong>the largest network of concentration camps in the world<\/strong> (the Laogai, the Chinese version of the Soviet Gulag), nor for the persecution against Christians and other religious groups. <strong>When it comes to discussing communist China and human rights, S\u00e1nchez falls silent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, <strong>the communist dictatorship in Beijing is very pleased with S\u00e1nchez's subservience to that anti-democratic regime<\/strong>, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) has made this clear through its propaganda channels. On Sunday, from Chengdu, in that Asian country, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.elmundo.es\/espana\/2025\/11\/09\/6910d1eb21efa002378b4592.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas de la Cal, writing for the newspaper El Mundo, pointed out this text that appeared a few days ago in the CPC's official newspaper<\/a>, the \"People's Daily\":<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"One of the most surprising diplomatic moments of 2025 will undoubtedly be King Felipe VI of Spain's visit to China. It is proof that, <strong>while most European countries continue to defer to the United States, Spain is openly aligning itself with China. This is a betrayal of its traditional alliances<\/strong>, but it is a bold and intelligent one. A great decision.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>It is a betrayal by S\u00e1nchez's government that all Spaniards will ultimately pay for<\/strong>, due to the consequences of losing the trust of our greatest strategic ally, the United States, by moving closer to the world's largest dictatorship. <strong>As if S\u00e1nchez hadn't already tarnished his country's name enough<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/world.people.com.cn\/n1\/2025\/1111\/c1002-40600960.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday the official newspaper of the CPC published an article referring to Spain as the \"China of Europe\"<\/a>, citing cultural and gastronomic reasons, and finally pointing out <em>\"<strong>the strategic orientation of the leaders of both countries<\/strong>\"<\/em>, commenting as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>In 2018, both countries issued a joint declaration on strengthening their comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era<\/strong>, promoting further development of bilateral relations and generating greater benefits for the people of both countries.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>In 2018, S\u00e1nchez came to power.<\/strong> Thus, one of the first things he did was to reach out to communist China. The dictatorship adds: <em>\"<strong>China and Spain share similar ideals on many highly relevant international issues.<\/strong>\"<\/em> It is not Spain that shares these ideals: it is a minority government that remains in power after losing the last general election two years ago and despite no longer having the parliamentary majority that granted S\u00e1nchez reelection.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for S\u00e1nchez's rapprochement with the Beijing dictatorship is obvious: <strong>S\u00e1nchez is a socialist and governs with the communists of Sumar, which is why he's cozying up to a communist regime. The ideological affinities are clear<\/strong>, as clear as his contempt for the West, for democracy, and for human rights. Let's remember, in case anyone has forgotten, that <strong>communist China is the main ally of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship<\/strong>, which has been massacring Ukrainian civilians for years in a war of aggression that seriously jeopardizes the peace and security of Europe. <strong>With this alliance, S\u00e1nchez is discrediting Spain<\/strong> and positioning it as the best friend of a regime that has governed China since 1949 without free elections and violating human rights. <strong>And then he'll still come along and warn us against the \"far-right\"...<\/strong><\/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>. An image of the friendly meeting held by the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez and the Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping on March 31, 2023 in Beijing.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s rapprochement with the Chinese communist dictatorship is creating increasing strategic risks for Spain.<\/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":[10398],"tags":[10444,12847,2721,17125,10796,10848],"class_list":["post-61788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-communism","tag-communist-party-of-china-cpc","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-socialism","tag-xi-jinping"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-12 02:59:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=61788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}