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Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish prime minister, is visiting China, Donald Trump’s high goal for commerce tariffs.

The Spanish chief is on his third journey to the nation in two years as his authorities seeks to spice up funding from Beijing.

Sanchez met Xi Jinping, the Chinese language president, in addition to enterprise leaders from a number of Chinese language firms, lots of which produce electrical batteries or
renewable power applied sciences.

It comes amid hypothesis that European nations – disheartened by Trump’s tariffs regime – might pivot to China as the worldwide commerce image evolves.

“A commerce warfare favours nobody. All of us will lose,” Sanchez mentioned after assembly with Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi yesterday, the place he signed business agreements earlier than his go to to Beijing.