{"id":64410,"date":"2026-04-09T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=64410"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:21:40","slug":"an-opaque-operation-to-tie-spain-to-the-worlds-largest-authoritarian-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/09\/an-opaque-operation-to-tie-spain-to-the-worlds-largest-authoritarian-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"An opaque operation to tie Spain to the world's largest authoritarian regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, 40 years ago, the Spanish people expressed in a national referendum their desire to be part of NATO.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/01\/the-colossal-cynicism-of-pedro-sanchez-after-his-alliance-with-the-worlds-greatest-executioners\/\">The colossal cynicism of Pedro S\u00e1nchez after his alliance with the world's greatest executioners<\/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><strong>This has been one of the few issues submitted to a national referendum in almost half a century of democracy in Spain.<\/strong> Besides that one, only one other national referendum was held during this time: the one that served to approve the 1978 Constitution. <strong>The 1986 referendum served to confirm Spain's willingness to be part of that part of the free world prepared to actively defend democracy<\/strong> against those who threaten it. At that time, the greatest threat to peace in Europe was the Soviet dictatorship, with its capital in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><big>Communist China, the world's largest authoritarian regime<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, the greatest threat to peace in Europe is Putin's Russia, whose main ally is China<\/strong>, led by a one-party regime, the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has ruled that country without free elections since 1949. <strong>It is a regime headed by a cold dictator, Xi Jinping<\/strong>, whom many Western media outlets whitewash by simply calling him \"president\" and omitting the fact that he leads <strong>an anti-democratic regime that gravely violates human rights<\/strong>. In fact, during the rule of dictator Mao Zedong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/12\/18\/the-more-than-100-million-deaths-that-communism-caused-divided-by-countries\/\">communist China perpetrated the largest genocide in history<\/a>. Some estimates indicate that the death toll could have reached <strong>82 million<\/strong> (today the country has about 1.4 billion inhabitants).<\/p>\n<p><big>The rapprochement of S\u00e1nchez's government with that anti-democratic regime<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>El actual gobierno de Espa\u00f1a, una coalici\u00f3n de socialistas y comunistas encabezada por Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> (que perdi\u00f3 las \u00faltimas elecciones generales y se mantiene en el poder gracias a desesperados y desaprensivos pactos con la extrema izquierda y los separatistas) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/21\/los-crimenes-de-la-dictadura-comunista-de-china-a-la-que-pedro-sanchez-elogia\/\">viene protagonizando un cada vez mayor acercamiento a la dictadura comunista china<\/a>, una maniobra que <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/24\/la-inmoral-reunion-del-psoe-con-el-partido-unico-de-la-mayor-dictadura-del-mundo\/\">ha incluido reuniones bilateras entre el partido de S\u00e1nchez (el PSOE) y el PCCh<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/26\/the-illegal-police-stations-of-communist-china-in-spain-and-the-silence-of-sanchez\/\">la creaci\u00f3n de comisar\u00edas ilegales de polic\u00eda de la China comunista en Espa\u00f1a<\/a>, un esc\u00e1ndalo que salt\u00f3 en 2022 y del que no se ha vuelto a saber absolutamente nada, sin que S\u00e1nchez haya dado ninguna explicaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p><big>A new S\u00e1nchez's visit to China without having explained what he agreed to on the previous one<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, it was revealed through that dictatorship that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/politica\/sanchez-desafia-a-trump-con-un-nuevo-viaje-oficial-a-china-acompanado-de-begona-gomez.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez is preparing his fourth official visit to China in four years<\/a>. It will take place from April 11 to 15. <strong>This visit confirms the role of the current Spanish government as the main partner of that dictatorship in the European Union<\/strong>, but it is shrouded in murky details. Today, the Spanish newspaper VozP\u00f3puli reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/politica\/sanchez-cerrara-en-china-una-bateria-de-acuerdos-tecnologicos-opacos-tras-la-mediacion-del-lobby-de-zapatero.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez will close a series of opaque technology deals in China following mediation by the lobby of the socialist Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero<\/a>, who was president of the Spanish government between 2004 and 2011 and is currently facing heavy criticism for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/03\/the-torture-of-political-prisoners-in-venezuela-and-the-perverse-role-of-the-spanish-left\/\">his ties and business dealings with the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The same media outlet reported today that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/madrid\/sanchez-vuelve-a-china-sin-haber-explicado-los-detalles-de-su-encuentro-con-xi-jinping-hace-un-ano.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez is returning to China without having explained the details of his meeting with Xi Jinping a year ago<\/a>, <strong>details that the parliamentary opposition demanded to know<\/strong>, but which the Socialist leader refused to provide, once again demonstrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/espana\/2026-01-13\/gobierno-record-reclamaciones-transparencia-ocultar-informacion_4282450\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lack of transparency with which S\u00e1nchez is breaking records never before achieved by previous Spanish governments.<\/p>\n<p><big>The shadow of socialist corruption looms over this opaque operation.<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amidst growing hostility toward democracies like the United States and Israel<\/strong>, hostility fostered by S\u00e1nchez's own government, his party, and its allies, <strong>in Spain there seems to be no clear awareness of what this opaque operation implies for the country: tying it to the world's largest authoritarian regime<\/strong>. A regime whose single party has ties to all major Chinese companies and uses its economic power to gain influence globally. In this particular case, <strong>Chinese influence networks in Spain could be creating a web that the next government will find difficult to dismantle<\/strong>, if it has the will to do so (let us remember that <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 People's Party has also been maintaining contacts with the CPC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>This opaque operation may have a significant ideological influence<\/strong> (we are talking about two governments that share ideologies hostile to liberalism, capitalism, and Western culture), <strong>but we cannot ignore the fact that<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/12\/socialist-corruption-in-spain-briefly-explained-to-people-from-other-countries\/\">S\u00e1nchez is surrounded by serious corruption scandals<\/a>, which affect his government, his party, and even his personal circle. Coincidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260403\/calvario-judicial-sanchismo-decena-causas-corrupcion-desde-caso-psoe-caja-b-rescate-plus-ultra_402587.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a considerable part of that corruption has to do with the irregular purchase of medical supplies during the pandemic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20240306\/sanchez-autorizo-abalos-compra-mascarillas-seis-dias-despues-declarar-estado-alarma_179565.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchases made precisely from China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Instead of calling elections, S\u00e1nchez is mortgaging Spain's future with China<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Thus, we find ourselves in a paradox: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/31\/ucrania-lleva-cuatro-presupuestos-aprobados-en-una-guerra-pedro-sanchez-usa-una-lejana-guerra-como-excusa-para-no-presentarlos\/\">a government that has been unable to pass a new budget this term<\/a>, lacking sufficient parliamentary support to approve its accounts, <strong>not only fails to call elections but is mortgaging Spain to the world's largest dictatorship<\/strong>, severing our country's ties with major democracies and distancing us from the transatlantic links that Spaniards approved in a referendum. It is logical to ask: who benefits from S\u00e1nchez's shady dealings with China?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Reuters\/Tingshu Wang. Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping pictured at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 23, 2022.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, 40 years ago, the Spanish people expressed in a national referendum their desire to be part of NATO.<\/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":[10444,12847,710,693,2721,17125,10796,11462,10848],"class_list":["post-64410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-communism","tag-communist-party-of-china-cpc","tag-zapatero","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-socialism","tag-spain","tag-xi-jinping"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 22:37:38","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\/64410","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=64410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}