Zapatero heats Sánchez's trip to China participating in Davos in Asia, the economic forum sponsored by the Xi Jinping government

HainanA Chinese island the size of the ends, he sucked to stop being a fisherman's city to transform into a new financial and technological center in South Asia which competes with Hong Kong and Singapore. The Chinese government shapes these ambitions with major projects such as the construction of the largest free trade port in the world, with an independent customs system and lower taxes to attract large investors and foreign talents. But for this island to appear on the map, the Chinese LDERES have planted a regional copy of the Davos forum. They baptized it like the Bomao forumTaking the name of a small coastal tourist town east of Hainan.

These days there is a Constant Transfer around the vast complex with a view to the sea where a forum that starts 20 years ago to promote the Asic Economic Integration and that, in the Last Years, has tried to become a more global cnclave inviting representatives of mayy corners of the planet, Places of the Global South, to that china has been seductive with great investments in large investments in large investments infrastructure under the umbrella of the new Silk lane.

A few years ago, Bao was the first Chinese soil that pee the Spanish president, Pedro SchezDuring his first trip to the Asician giant. Schez returns to Pekn, for the third time in just two years, April 8. But this week, with the emphasis on Boao, in representation of Spain appears another socialist who is an old knowledge of the Chinese regime, Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero.

The former Spanish president participates in an event that this year attracted 2,000 representatives of 60 passes. Zapatero crossed until Friday on the Chinese island with political, commercial, academic and superior officials of the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH). The latter, generally using the seal of an academic center or a reflection group, very often invite the Pasitico to Zapatero, which maintains very good contacts in particular in the main rgan advisor to Pekn, Political advisory conference of the Chinese peopleWhere many political veterans and diplomas are that coincided with Spanish during their stage in La Moncloa.

“This approach takes on a particular importance in the current scenario, with the next visit of the President of the Government, Pedro Snchez, on the graduate agenda, which underlines the desire to strengthen bilateral relations in economic and commercial terms”, explains a note published on the web on the Spanish state chain CGTN.

In Boao, they also mention international personalities such as the former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon or Nobel Peace MuhammadYunus. There is also a Russian delegation led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Alexei OverchukAnd from the United States the Republican arrives Carlos M. GutierrezFormer Secretary of Commerce.

In the interventions of these days in the forum abound the story promoted by Pekn in favor of multilateralism, the criticisms of the protectionism of the American president Donald Trump Already his pricing war. Chinese officials promote the event as another opportunity for their diplomacy to fill the holes left by Trump's Catholic policy.

Zapatero, who generally embraces the PCCH discourse when he participates in the conferences that invite him to China, attracted the time to be a bond of trust between Pekn and Madrid. He is the main sponsor of a reflection group, Gate Center, in which he appears as chairman of the Advisory Council, which is well linked to asy superpowers and its development programs in the world of world. According to the reverse The confidentialTo stimulate this hall, shoemaker draws the money and the influence of a Chinese businessman, Fanyongwhich has been the subject of an investigation by the CNI to be an alleged Spanish from China.

Last year, in Madrid, Zapatero was at a reception that the PSOE celebrated a Yin Li, one of the 24 leaders of the Chinese powerful Politbur, the key rgan in decision -making, in Ferraz. It was in May, the same month that he also went to Pekn to meet the diploma Liu JianchaoA large PCCH fish that manages an important external policy department.

A few months later Department of International Links of the Central CommitteeThe PCCH rgan chief, and also met Yin Li. The same summer, returned to the Asitico Pas, where he was received by Liu Qibao, vice-president of the Rgan Councilor of the Xi Jinping government.