Xi Jinping Canary

In 2018, a tourist route was opened between China and the Canary Islands in honor of the great travel writer Chen Maopingbetter known in his country by the pseudnimo of Sanmaospecially reference for several generations of Taiwan players, where The author spent her childhood until she moved to Madrid in the 1960s. Jos Mara Quero and RuizTo go to Gran Canaria. Sanmao, a revolutionary writer, committed suicide in 1991. Leave dozens of autobiographical trials, words of popular Taiwanese songs, successful film scripts in Hong Kong and translations to send works in English and Spanish.

This week, in a symposium on the expansion of the Chinese imprint in Frica organized by a Chinese diploma in the modern city of Suzhou, neighbor of Shanghai, it was mentioned of Sanmao and its famous collection of rehearsals, Shara stories. “In his stories, he says he was devoted to villages distributing drugs to sick women. This spirit of solidarity is the one who now guides China in their assistance programs for the development of African passes,” releases a Chinese official, who also mentions the Canary Islands as A point of strategic interest for Chinese companies.

Sanmao's work was published in 1976, the same year in which Gran Canaria was moved, which many Chinese are linked to the adventures told by the writer. The house where I lived during a DCADA, in Playa Del Men, on the coast of the municipality of Telde, has become a place of pilgrimage for travelers of the Asician giant. Other Chinese citizens also know the Spanish archipelash because it has become the strange usual judgment of the Pekn Lderes When they go to summits that stand in Amrica Latina.

Last November, for the third time during his mandate, the president Xi JinpingDuring a trip to the top of the LDERES of the Asian Pacfico economic cooperation forum, which was held in PER, made a 24 hour scale in Gran Canaria. XI and its range were received by the autonomous president, Fernando ClavijoAnd visited the Casa de Coln museum, located in the historic district of Vegueta. “This is an island that I really appreciate,” said the Chinese chief in a brief conversation with Antonio Morales, president of the Cabilo de Gran Canaria. “The scale confirms the importance of our strategic location and our logical capacity and our public and private infrastructure that we have,” said Seal Morales.

Many Chinese state companies have made their eyes in the Canary Islands with large investments in the hotel and the fishing industry. But from the Asic superpower they see in this Spanish autonomous community a potential strategic point in the Atlantic For a commercial outing on African marketsWhere Pekn has extended its economic influence with major investments supported by the new silk route, the megaproject of the infrastructure sponsored by XI itself. China, in addition to supporting their construction companies to raise dozens of roads, bridges, airports, railways, telecommunications and electric centers on the continent, it has become the largest bilateral creditor in Frica.

Last year, in a Spanish-China forum held in Pekn, which was assisted by the president Pedro SchezSeveral Autiale Business and Political Entrepreneurs participated as Director of Institutional Relations of the Cabdo de Tenerife, Pedro Gonzlez, who intervened to highlight “economic and fiscal attractions” in order to hang Chinese investors. “Our island is also positioned as a key connection point between Europe, Fria and Amrica Latina, a real bridge between continents,” said Lope Afonso, vice-president of the island.

“We want the Canary Islands The Chinese bridge in the west of the frica in sectors such as energy. For our country, FRICA is high priority and the Spanish government has asked China to channel investments in step, “said Charm The Chinese ambassador to Spain, Jao Jing.

There are Canarian companies that carry years of support to the logistics services of Chinese compaas in Mauritania, where Pekn has taken the eye In natural gas reserves and in the fishing sector. In the waters of Morocco, the Chinese fleet, which has a base in Las Palmas of state peaches of Chinese national fishing, does not stop increasing its activity. Greenpeace estimates that more than 400 Chinese fishing boats are currently operating on the coasts of western frica, a region where Chinese compays have participated since 2022 in the construction or amplification of more than a half centa of Martimas infrastructure, mainly ports.

In addition, while the Chinese develop in Sahel's investments in critical minerals, such as gold, copper, lithium and uranium, their engineers help their African colleagues to carry out an ambitious project against desertification: construction in the Shara desert of a Large green wall 7,700 kilometers, in order to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.

In the latest DCADAS, Chinese funding, which has promoted the construction of infrastructure throughout money, has also charged many passes With debts that cannot payEspecially in the Sub-Saharan frica. In this region, China's participation in total external public debt was less than 2% before 2005, while 20 years later, the figure is around 20%.

Last year, Xi Jinping, at a summit held in Pekn with African LDERES, commits that Asicité superpowers invests more than $ 50,000 million in three years. “The stability and development of FRICA are crucial for the common destiny of humanity,” he said in early March, during the annual appointment of Chinese policy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, who regains the commitment of his AD to support FRIA to accelerate his economic development at a time when the United States reduces aid to the continent.