The Diplomat
The State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs, Ángeles Moreno Bau, said during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Spain-China Council Foundation that the Government aims to achieve “increasingly broad and diverse trade exchanges” with China “in search of more symmetrical and balanced relations”.
The Foundation held last December 14 the second General Meeting of Trustees in 2021, with the participation of about twenty members, plus another ten who connected remotely via telematics, including the Spanish ambassador to China, Rafael Dezcallar, as reported by the organization in a press release.
The Board approved the appointment, as members of the Board of Trustees, of Ángeles Moreno Bau and Javier Salido, director general for North America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.
The Board also approved the Foundation’s Action Plan for 2022, which focuses on flexibility in the face of the uncertainty of international travel due to the pandemic and which establishes as one of its priorities the need to deepen specialized knowledge about China in order to “move towards a more informed relationship with the world’s second largest economy”.
During her intervention by videoconference, Ángeles Moreno pointed out that “the Spain-China Council Foundation is a vital instrument of public diplomacy, essential for mutual knowledge and for a greater debate on China in our society”.
She also stressed that “Spain continues to maintain very good relations with China, which in economic terms is our second largest supplier and eighth largest customer.” “The coverage rate is still unbalanced in favor of China, but we continue to work for increasingly broad and diverse trade exchanges, in search of more symmetrical and balanced relations,” concluded the State Secretary.
