11/04/2025
2 min

Pedro Sánchez's visit to Beijing has ignited the inner circle, which has been unable to find the aloe vera ointment to soothe its irritation for several days. "Sánchez ignores the White House and displays his alignment with Xi," the front page reads. The WorldOnce again, there is this use and abuse of carnival verbs: exhibits is a first cousin of boasts, boasts, biscuit, boasts or the traditional one boasts. Oh, the boastingThe newspaper should explain what the problem is. Governments of different persuasions have held bilateral meetings with China, and it's clear that Trump's erratic trade policy—to put it politely and respectfully, with the monkeys and the guns—requires us to navigate the multilateral arena as best we can. Angering China after the United States' unilateral slam of the door would be, from a strategic point of view, incomprehensible. Furthermore, the same newspapers that railed against the tariffs should explain what the possible solutions are. Xi's regime is execrable, but there aren't many global powers left with acceptable democratic health, once the United States becomes self-absorbed. And we'll have to see, in a few months, the level of democratic health of the American country, which is firmly on the path to ruin.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Spanish President Pedro Sánchez arrive for a bilateral meeting at Diaoyutai Guest House in Beijing, China.

Once again, there is only the desire to turn Pedro Sánchez into an antagonist. His visit to China has not, so far, caused any tangible and objective damage to Spain. It is Trump, in fact, who is once again making U-turns in the face of measures he either doesn't control or controls too well and has simply been manipulating the markets. We must demand more consistency: you can't criticize Trump because he looks good and he's a kind of jack-of-all-trades, easy to denigrate if, at the same time, you play into his hands, whether with foreign trade or arms purchases.

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