{"id":96303,"date":"2026-04-14T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=96303"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:52:07","slug":"xi-meets-spain-pm-in-china-as-madrid-seeks-stronger-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/xi-meets-spain-pm-in-china-as-madrid-seeks-stronger-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi meets Spain PM in China as Madrid seeks stronger ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: China\u2019s President Xi Jinping met Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Beijing on Tuesday, according to Chinese state media, with the visit centered on strengthening economic ties.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the two leaders comes on the second day of Sanchez\u2019s visit as he seeks to position Spain as a bridge between Beijing and the European Union, whose relations with the United States are under strain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the morning of April 14, President Xi Jinping met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is on an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,\u201d state broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez is seeking to strengthen economic ties with the world\u2019s second-largest economy, but called China\u2019s trade imbalance with the EU \u201cunsustainable\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish prime minister is on his fourth visit to China in four years and follows a steady flow of Western leaders visiting Beijing in recent months as President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and unpredictable foreign policy have rattled the US\u2019s traditional allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: China\u2019s President Xi Jinping met Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Beijing on Tuesday, according to Chinese state media, with the visit centered on strengthening economic ties. The meeting of the two leaders comes on the second day of Sanchez\u2019s visit as he seeks to position Spain as a bridge between Beijing and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":96313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96314,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96303\/revisions\/96314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}