Spain's prime minister has said there is no need for a trade war between the EU and China.
Pedro Sanchez has also hailed China’s strong ties with Spain.
Sanchez's comments come as he finishes his visit to China.
CGTN’s Ken Browne breaks down what happened during the visit
Pedro Sanchez has also hailed China’s strong ties with Spain.
Sanchez's comments come as he finishes his visit to China.
CGTN’s Ken Browne breaks down what happened during the visit
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00:00Yes, so we've seen a lot of reports on the trade ties coming out particularly focused on some of those green deals that we just
00:07Heard about high green is a Chinese company. It's going to
00:12begin
00:13Manufacturing plants here with the aim of creating green hydrogen
00:18We also saw yesterday another deal was signed with envision another Chinese company
00:23Those are going to help Spain inch towards those goals of lowering its carbon emissions
00:29It's also very good news for the locals here here in Seville
00:33We're going to see hundreds of jobs Malaga is set to get a thousand jobs from that
00:37Huelva, which is an hour from here another 2,000 jobs where the hydrogen plant is going to be built
00:43So a lot of those details filtering through to the local press here in Spain
00:49Pedro Sanchez has wrapped up this tour on Monday
00:53He met with President Xi Jinping Chinese President Xi Jinping for some really important trade talks there
00:59they definitely talked about the
01:02electric vehicles the tariffs that the EU has placed on
01:06electric vehicles and the potential reprisals the
01:10Investigations that have gone ahead into European pork into European plastics and brandy and more recently
01:16Dairy products now pork is the one that would really hurt Spain they
01:21Exported some 1.5 billion dollars worth last year the biggest European exporter to China
01:27So Sanchez was there with some leaders of the pork industry to discuss that we heard from sources in those meetings
01:34Say that those meetings went pretty well on that both sides expressed themselves and that there was an understanding between
01:41the two presidents between President Xi and Sanchez and culturally also we've seen certain
01:49Greater links we saw the second Cervantes Institute opened in China
01:54That's only the Spain is the only country that has two of those officially recognized cultural centers in China today
02:02We're here in Seville, and we're going to see the Imperial Bells later
02:06There is a it's a Chinese show of ancient music and dance
02:11part of a
02:13Wide cultural offering that we've seen over the past year last year 2023 of course was 50 years of official diplomatic relations
02:21between China and Spain
02:23The trip from Pedro Sanchez to China was his second trip in just over a year and a half
02:29So it's only helped to strengthen those relations, and that's what Pedro Sanchez said that he doesn't want any
02:37geopolitical or trade tensions to affect that relationship